4.49.7-1 process name feature keeps adding processes

[Julian Field]

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Try killing mailscanner-mrtg, just to prove that it's not guilty of 
generating them...

Michael Masse wrote:

>Using the 4.49.7-1 rpm install on a RHEL3 system.
>My max processes setting is set to 5 and PS shows I have 5
>"mailScanner" master waiting for children, sleeping" lines and a bunch
>of 
>"MailScanner: waiting for messages" lines.
>
>System seems to be working fine.
>
>The problem is that the number "MailScanner:waiting for messages"
>processes are increasing linearly with time with no relavance to load.  
> Mailscanner-mrtg shows a linear graph of these processes increasing in
>a very straight line..    Essentially every hour on the hour 5 more of
>these processes are added to the running total regardless of load.   
>I've been paranoid about this so I've been restarting MailScanner about
>once a day since I noticed this because I don't know if it will stop
>creating new processes before running out of ram, and I really don't
>want to find out the hard way.         A look at PS after a day or so of
>MS running makes unfiltered PS very hard to read with the hundred+
>waiting for messages entries.  Is this something I should be concerned
>with?  Will the number of these processes eventually cap out at a safe
>level before running out of ram?       
>
>Mike
>
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