MailScanner occasionally not picking up from the hold queue

[Nigel Kendrick]

I'm running MailScanner 4.41.3 (ClamAV, spamassassin, Razor) on a CentOS4
(RHEL4) server with Postfix. I have three other servers with a similar
configuration that all work fine, but with this specific one I have noticed
through pfqueue that sometimes mail starts to pile up in the 'hold' queue
and doesn't seem to get picked up and processed unless I restart
Mailscanner, when everything will work again for a while before the same
thing happens. Just now, the jobs I 'released' were showing delays of
between 400 and 600.

The load on the server (a Xeon 2.8GHz with 768MB RAM) is very light -
perhaps 30-50 emails an hour.

I haven't seen this behaviour on my other servers so I presume it's not
normal and needs checking, so is this a known issue with a known fix, or
where can I start checking for a possible solution or doing some
tracking/debugging? Maillog gives no hint of an error or failure of anything
to start up. If I am not reading the situation correctly and there isn't a
problem do let me know!

Thanks

Nigel Kendrick

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