mailscanner problems

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Grzesiek Sedek [mailto:grzegorz at WIMBLEDON.AC.UK]
>Envoyé : 24 mars, 2004 07:24
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: mailscanner problems
>
>
>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,

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