I only want one child process but it seems to ignore the max children setting.

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On 2/22/06, Hans de Groot <hansg at dandy.nl> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like mailscanner to only use one child process.
>
> It should check the queue every 60 seconds and process any mail that is
> there. But only using one process since I am low on system resources
>
> I set the option max children=1
>
> But it seems to ignore this setting. I often see 2 or 3 children running.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> I am using Version 4.48.4-2.
>

Are you sure that's children and not "helpers" like the wrapper scripts for
Clam and so on?

I use 5 children and therefor normally have six processes related to MS
running:

    root  7294  3787  1 07:08:21 ?        1:30 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  6621  3787  1 07:03:10 ?        1:33 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  6725  3787  1 07:03:53 ?        1:33 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  3787     1  0   Feb 10 ?        0:01 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  7656  3787  1 07:11:01 ?        1:36 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  7720  3787  1 07:11:12 ?        1:30 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail

But whenever something is happening more processes start as needed:

    root  7294  3787  1 07:08:21 ?        1:30 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  6621  3787  1 07:03:10 ?        1:33 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  6725  3787  1 07:03:53 ?        1:33 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  3787     1  0   Feb 10 ?        0:01 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root 21922  6725  0 10:54:31 ?        0:00 /bin/sh
/opt/MailScanner/lib/clamav-wrapper /usr/local -r --disable-summary --s
    root 21921  7656  3 10:54:30 ?        0:01 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  7656  3787  1 07:11:01 ?        1:35 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    root  7720  3787  1 07:11:12 ?        1:30 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail

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/peter
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