MailScanner ignoring child process limit

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I've been trying to track down a resource issue and have come across something 
odd.  I have MS set to use 10 child processes, yet:

57136 53400  1:30PM   0:12.96 MailScanner: waiting for messages
55584 51836  1:45PM   0:03.87 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58288 54720  1:10PM   0:32.86 MailScanner: waiting for messages
63732 58580  1:09PM   0:33.49 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61648 58044  1:10PM   0:32.24 MailScanner: waiting for messages
59916 56336  1:16PM   0:24.85 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58924 55220  1:15PM   0:26.39 MailScanner: waiting for messages
60616 56500  1:10PM   0:32.27 MailScanner: waiting for messages
59060 55464  1:46PM   0:03.95 MailScanner: waiting for messages
59492 55860  1:45PM   0:04.32 MailScanner: waiting for messages
57696 53600  1:16PM   0:24.12 MailScanner: waiting for messages
60104 56208  1:31PM   0:13.27 MailScanner: waiting for messages
57216 53372  1:31PM   0:12.85 MailScanner: waiting for messages
56520 52804  1:30PM   0:10.73 MailScanner: waiting for messages
59924 56052  1:31PM   0:10.08 MailScanner: waiting for messages
60564 56604  1:15PM   0:26.45 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61564 57912  1:08PM   0:37.61 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58476 54604  1:30PM   0:11.33 MailScanner: waiting for messages
62200 58612  1:09PM   0:42.43 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61136 57584  1:09PM   0:33.56 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61504 56932  1:09PM   0:34.54 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61744 57908  1:09PM   0:33.92 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58840 54772  1:15PM   0:25.17 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58796 54392  1:15PM   0:25.72 MailScanner: waiting for messages
61940 58372  1:15PM   0:24.55 MailScanner: waiting for messages
58144 54048  1:15PM   0:24.70 MailScanner: waiting for messages
60280 56492  1:16PM   0:25.47 MailScanner: waiting for messages
59576 55980  1:16PM   0:25.62 MailScanner: waiting for messages
56676 53004  1:30PM   0:10.71 MailScanner: waiting for messages
56716 52872  1:30PM   0:13.47 MailScanner: waiting for messages
55712 51940  1:45PM   0:03.38 MailScanner: waiting for messages
56284 52048  1:45PM   0:02.73 MailScanner: waiting for messages
55752 51784  1:45PM   0:02.85 MailScanner: waiting for messages
55872 51876  1:46PM   0:03.08 MailScanner: waiting for messages
56256 52232  1:46PM   0:02.96 MailScanner: waiting for messages

... I regularly see 35+ child processes.  I also see about 4 "masters":

1:08PM   0:00.03 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
1:15PM   0:00.03 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
1:30PM   0:00.02 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
1:45PM   0:00.02 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping

I understand that the children will spawn "temporary" processes to do virus 
scanning, etc which I did not include in the above lists.  I'm running on 
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, MailScanner-4.55.9 installed from ./install.sh, Perl 5.8.8, 
and all Perl packages installed from ports.

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