Mailscanner children exceed Max Children setting?

[Brian Lewis]

Max Children = 10

Yes I count 15 copies of Mailscanner running!!
ps -aux
root     23359  0.0  1.1 23500 5904 ?        S    Jan04
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root     32081  1.6  6.5 43332 33584 ?       S    08:57
0:05 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root     32321  3.0  6.5 43168 33312 ?       S    08:58
0:09 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root       321  2.8  6.5 43188 33440 ?       S    09:00
0:05 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root       447  9.6  6.5 43184 33432 ?       S    09:00
0:15 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root       991  2.9  6.1 42656 31544 ?       S    09:02
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1038  3.5  6.1 42652 31532 ?       S    09:03
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1089  5.2  6.1 42660 31528 ?       S    09:03
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1126  8.7  6.2 42652 31580 ?       S    09:03
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1531  0.0  6.0 42264 30904 ?       S    09:04
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1645  0.0  6.0 42264 30900 ?       S    09:05
0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1989  0.0  6.5 44668 33112 ?       D    09:06
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1995  0.0  6.3 43464 32232 ?       S    09:06
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      1998  0.0  6.3 43196 32168 ?       S    09:06
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan
root      2004  0.0  6.3 43180 32176 ?       S    09:07
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScan

What gives?  Is this because the mail queue might have grown larger than
the 'Max Normal Queue Size = 800' value?
I am seeing this behavior quite often.

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