process <defunct>

[Chris Sweeney]

I've seen this happen when you have your virus scanner settings wrong in the
MailScanner.conf file.  Check to make sure you are refering to the correct
scanner.

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Thanks
Chris


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From: No Name <egtswnzxkeec at spammotel.com>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:59:28 +0200
Subject: Re: process <defunct>

> >>Don't worry, this is normal. The <defunct> processes only stay around for
a
> >>seond or two. You may find, if you watch them, that the PIDs of the
> >><defunct> processes keep changing, i.e. they are actually different
defunct
> >>processes. This enables MailScanner to run measurably faster than sorting
> >>all the old processes out one at a time.
>
> But in my situation the <defunct> processes seem to stay forever.
> The system is newly setup and I only sent a few testmessages through
> it however there for every message sent a new <defunct> process was
> added. I just sent eight testmessages and after that I had 14 Mailscanner
> processes and eigth of them were <defunct>.
>
> Sorry for beeing so persistent, but I simply want to get sure that I
> will not be faced by any ressource leaks when getting productive.
>
> Thank's again.
> Frank.
>
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