mailscanner strange problem

[Vladimir Nikolic]

I've realized that everything is working ok except option 'Restart Every
= 14400'. I see lines in log - 'MailScanner child dying of old age'
approximately every 4 hours but sometimes there is not 5 these lines
(for every MailScanner child). Process which is not restarted then eats
up resources and by some time MailScanner stops.

Regards,
Vlado

Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Vladimir
>
> quite a jump...
>
> anyway what O/S. MTA etc.
>
> what does mailscanner -v give you, so we can check the versions of perl
> modules.
>
> Are you using SA? If you are what version?
>
> Are you using any anti-virus, if so which on and wnat version.
>
> Have you tried putting MS into debug mode and running check mailscanner
> to see if you can spot where it's doing odd things?
>
> have you looked in the log files to see if there's anything
> 'interesting' there?
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Vladimir Nikolic wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> After upgrade to 4.34.8 (from 4.21.9) mailscanner doesn't work right.
>> Trouble is that mailscanner child processes are creating their own child
>> processes which then run without control and by the time take all
>> resources.
>> I've tried wiht downgrade to 4.21.9 but it didn't help. Mailscanner acts
>>  the same.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vlado
>>
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