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

[Julian Field]

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On 22 Feb 2006, at 09:49, Hans de Groot 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.

No, everything is fine. The 1 child you have generates temporary  
processes for things like virus scanning. You will find that these  
extra processes come and go quite a lot.

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