mailscanner problems

[Grzesiek Sedek]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:15:20AM -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : Grzesiek Sedek [mailto:grzegorz at WIMBLEDON.AC.UK]
> >Envoy? : 24 mars, 2004 06:47
> >? : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Objet : mailscanner problems
> >
> >
> >Hi everybody
> >I have a bit of a problem with mailscanner.
> >Everything seems to be ok but mailscanner leaves it's processes after
> >they finished scan, so I've set it up to have only 4 childs but after
> >couple of hours on not so busy system with lots of resourses
> >there could
> >be up to 100 detached MailScanner prcs.
> >Is it normal?
>
> Any defunct (zombie) processes?
>
> I don't think so...
>
> What is the output of ps -aux | grep Mail
> ?
> More info on your setup would help as well.
>
> How much ram you've got on that system?  I don't know how you system can cope with 100 MS processes, since they usually are about 35 MB big, that means 3.5 GB of memory used..
>
>
>
> >G.
> >

I'm getting a lot of errors like this in /var/log/mail.log

Mar 24 12:18:37 mail MailScanner[25811]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24466/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
Mar 24 12:18:37 mail MailScanner[25060]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
Mar 24 12:18:37 mail MailScanner[25261]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
Mar 24 12:18:39 mail MailScanner[24461]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
Mar 24 12:18:39 mail MailScanner[25462]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
Mar 24 12:18:45 mail MailScanner[25680]: Cannot create + lock headers
file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,