Take 2: MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail

[Julian Field]

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Okay, this patch is rather better. Please try applying it to
/usr/sbin/MailScanner and let me know if it helps.

Julian Field wrote:

> Scrub that patch. This is going to take a lot more looking at than I
> thought.
> No immediate solution folks, sorry.
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Please can you try the attached patch for /usr/sbin/MailScanner. It
>> should apply successfully to most recent versions, as this file changes
>> pretty rarely.
>>
>> Please let me know how you get on, if my hunch is correct then it should
>> help.
>>
>> Brent Emerson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm seeing the same behavior that was reported by Nigel Kennedy in the
>>> thread "MailScanner occasionally not picking up from the hold queue"
>>> and
>>> which is detailed in Debian bug #305239
>>> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305239): An MS child
>>> dies of old age, another child is spawned, and the new process never
>>> picks
>>> up any messages from the hold queue.  Eventually, all my MS children
>>> are
>>> in state "sleeping" and all incoming mail accumulates in the hold
>>> queue.
>>> A stop/start restores things to normal.  The problem almost always
>>> seems
>>> to occur exactly 4 hours after my automated 23:10 MS restart (3:10am),
>>> when system load is low.
>>>
>>> My system: FreeBSD 4.9, Postfix 2.2.2, MailScanner 4.41.3, SpamAssassin
>>> 3.0.3, ClamAV 0.85.  Most or all of my relevant perl modules are the
>>> latest versions, which in some cases may be later than what Julian
>>> recommends.
>>>
>>> Has there been a resolution/diagnosis of this yet?  Any clues?  Any
>>> debug
>>> work I can do?
>>>
>>> Brent Emerson
>>>
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