MailScanner being killed and restarted until sy stem hangs

[Desai, Jason]

Wasn't it around last Saturday when the Bitdefender update was causing
problems?  You may want to look at that, to see if it is causing your high
load.

Jase

Julian Field wrote:
> How much RAM have you got?
> How much swap space have you got?
> What is your "Max Children" setting?
> What is your "Virus Scanners" setting?
>
> At 09:46 30/09/2004, you wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> after I've been running MailScanner successfully since beginning of
>> August, strange things are happening since last Saturday.
>> Since then, MailScanner has started being killed from time to time
>> (out of memory) and thus begun starting inumerable processes making
>> the system going out of memory, the load climed dramatically (avg
>> load > 16) and several processes (i.e. apache, exim, shh, ...)
>> exited and the system hung (log excerpts see below).
>>
>> Well this happend twice the last few days.
>> Has somebody a experienced similar beaviour or a glue what that
>> might come from?
>>
>> I'm running MailScanner (4.32.5), with SpamAssassin (2.64),
>> ClamAv-Module / Bitdefender on a Debian box with exim (exact config
>> below).

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