MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jody Cleveland [mailto:Cleveland at WINNEFOX.ORG] 
> Envoyé : 23 mars, 2004 10:30
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having some serious problems with MailScanner. I've got version
> 4.28.6-1 running on redhat 9. Over the weekend, my server was 
> locked up,
> so I had to cycle it off. When it came back up, I noticed it running
> very slowly. Within about 10 minutes, it was completely 
> locked up again.
> I did a ps aux, and found MailScanner to be using tons of cpu and
> memory. Any ideas as to why? Also, why is it listed so many 
> times? If I
> stop MailScanner, the machine runs fine. Strange thing is, I've been
> using it for a little over a year without a problem.
> 
> Here is the output of ps aux:
> 
> root      2113  0.0  3.1 20172 16076 ?       S    09:20   0:00
> /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      2114  9.0  6.3 37572 32652 ?       S    09:20   0:16
> /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf


Hardware? Volume? Output of free?  You're probably just swapping.

> - Jody Cleveland
>