MailScanner hangs once a day

[Sergio García Caso]

Friday MailScanner stopped at 10 AM, yesterday it stopped at 12.00 AM  
and today at 8.30 AM (another days it stopped at different times but 
always at morning) so I think that the problem isn´t a cron job. Perhaps 
the problem is the high load the server have weekdays?

Sometimes when the message "MailScanner child dying of old age" appears 
in the syslog MailScanner don´t restart and it hangs.


>> > Another important thing that I have forgotten is that MailScanner didn´t
>> > stop
>> > netiher on Saturday nor on Sunday, but today (Monday) it has stopped
>> > and I have had to restart it.
>> >
>>     
> Hm, well then.... One would surmise that *something* is happening
> weekdays that isn't happening during the weekends. I trust you looked
> at all the possible cron jobs (crontabs hi and lo ... /etc/cron*/* and
> the "oldstyle" crontabs) without finding anything that stood out?
> And no new connections to your MTA at the time of ... demise? (I'm
> thinking "huge mail" bringing things ... low...)