Mailscanner children exceed Max Children setting?

[Julian Field]

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Brian Lewis wrote:

>Yes this only happens on the SA 3.0.2 server, the 2.6.4 servers are just
>fine!  But the 3.0.2 server is more likely to backup at times, causing the
>queue to get large, and so I am wondering if its in MailScanners nature to
>go 5 higher than max when the queue size is large? Or if this is just a
>mailscanner bug.
>
>
Neither. SpamAssassin forks off sub-processes to do things like razor
checks, dns checks wrapped in timeout code, all sorts of reasons.
MailScanner itself does the same thing all the time to provide timeout
protection. All you are seeing is the consistent child processes + all
the subprocesses they fork off temporarily as part of their normal
operation. This is all entirely intentional and is very necessary.

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