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

[Hans de Groot]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

I gues it is allright then.  It is just that mailwatch reports 2 or 3
childs active in it status table.

Regards,

Hans de Groot


On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:05:10 +0000
Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> - -- 
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050)
> 
> iQEVAwUBQ/w3Wfw32o+k+q+hAQFCJQgAk/kwNzgcgZH8PuaSTl4Bf5oh8Zr2z/Ru
> 5nuMZtqWJXK6DOdsSior8F3tXP0mt2qe+EEAyNfDzcVTpEl+K3u54gcc2n5ZUh7o
> EaicdULff4ulgopClPTBEMaL6cUvRVpId1kXuiFgBq1RMJdffE8RBtB8JzO5rTef
> GOWAhihwpub+vRPGeCreyCB0RMspKDRD6Nz/5DkONKjhNcFa+6X5lV3Hcx13jOtf
> KVxSc8lYYcpWj0Rv2ztazR8ToQmJX4lyo8Ysa64bBwhKGhmh/ymNYNyQNSH7EZ4Z
> yP4t9tFKEpWYOtjiRwMOoZK62wCeQ6eDgs044v9JibQ5qWUTDcn05g==
> =4arQ
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> -- 
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
> 
> -- 
> MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
> 
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
> 
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! 
> 
> -- 
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.

--- 
Hans de Groot 
Email: hansg at dandy.nl   www: http://www.dandy.nl



-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.