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

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I've set MailScanner to "1 child process only" when I've encountered two 
different scenarios:

1. Low system resources (128MB RAM, 5400rpm drives, 500Mhz CPU's)
2. Locking problems somewhere in the mix (either dovecot, or sendmail, 
or procmail, or something). Keeping only one process writing to the 
mailboxes seems to make it less likely.

Hans de Groot wrote:
> 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:
>
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>> On 22 Feb 2006, at 09:49, Hans de Groot wrote:
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>>     
>>> 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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>> Julian Field
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> Hans de Groot 
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Alex Neuman van der Hans
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