Abornal MailScanner startup

[Michael Freeman]

I have been running MS for years and have never had an issue with it till
last night. All of a sudden MS was eating 99% of my CPU. I though it was
because somebody was sending huge mailing list message but that was not
the problem.

 

I tried for hours to get it back under control, stopping and starting it
and it continued to eat my CPU power. I though maybe something got
correct as every time I started it I saw abnormal MS startup entries in
the maillog.

 

So I upgraded to the latest version. The problem still exists. When I
start MS I see it starting up like this;

 

Sep 30 23:23:38 srv07 MailScanner[12321]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.45.4 starting...

Sep 30 23:23:38 srv07 MailScanner[12321]: Read 204 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist

Sep 30 23:23:49 srv07 MailScanner[12328]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.45.4 starting...

Sep 30 23:23:49 srv07 MailScanner[12328]: Read 204 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist

Sep 30 23:24:00 srv07 MailScanner[12329]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.45.4 starting...

Sep 30 23:24:00 srv07 MailScanner[12329]: Read 204 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist

Sep 30 23:24:11 srv07 MailScanner[12338]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.45.4 starting...

Sep 30 23:24:11 srv07 MailScanner[12338]: Read 204 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist

 

Then top shows

 

12328 root      19   0  127M 126M  1844 R    21.9 12.6   0:14 MailScanner

12341 root      15   0 65960  62M  1832 R    20.0  6.2   0:03 MailScanner

12321 root      15   0  129M 127M  1844 R    19.1 12.7   0:23 MailScanner

12329 root      15   0  127M 126M  1844 R    19.1 12.6   0:08 MailScanner

12338 root      15   0  127M 126M  1844 R    18.1 12.6   0:05 MailScanner

12343 root      11   0  1088 1088   820 R     1.9  0.1   0:00 top

 

7 minutes later I see these entries;

 

Sep 30 23:29:43 srv07 MailScanner[12328]: Using locktype = posix

Sep 30 23:29:43 srv07 MailScanner[12328]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)

 

Why is it taking so much time to start and why it it kicking up the loads
so high? Is this a problem with MS + SA 3.1?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 


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