Stray processes on Debain Sarge

[Brent Addis]

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I'm running a similar setup on 2 debian sarge boxes without a problem (I
run an older exim, I need to migrate I know). Send me a copy of your
configs and I will compare.

Regards,

Brent Addis
Group Systems Administrator
Times Media Group


"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know". -- Lao Tsu



Donovan Jones wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have 2 mailscanner boxes running on Debian sarge. All software is
>currently up to date with whats in sarge, versions are:
>
>razor 2.670-1
>pyzor 0.4.0+cvs20030
>dcc 1.2.74-2
>f-prot 0.5.14
>spamassassin 3.0.2-1
>mailscanner 4.40.11-1
>exim 4.50-4
>
>on both boxes I am having the same problems with stray processes.
>
>I have hundreds of pyzor processes that have not been killed:
>
>mf1:~# ps auxww | grep pyzor | wc -l
>617
>
>each one is keeping a UDP port open (lsof -i output):
>
>pyzor   30845 Debian-exim    3u  IPv4 3426743       UDP *:60561
>
>I am not getting spamassassin timeouts and I am getting PYZOR_CHECK
>matches in my spamassassin reports so pyzor is working but some
>processes don't seem to be killed.
>
>The other problem is MailScanner processes that chew up 100% CPU time.
>These are long running processes that need to be killed manually and
>occur once every few days.
>
>Are these known issues? Does anyone else see the same behavior on Debian
>Sarge? What is the fix? Is there a monitor script I can use or should I
>write my own to kill Mailscanner and pyzor processes older than an hour
>say.
>
>Help appreciated
>
>--
>Donovan Jones
>
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