MailScanner goes byebyes

[Res]

Hi James,

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, James Gray wrote:

> Wow, 10 children - I hope you have at least 2 REAL CPU's/cores (not some wanky

yes, DL380 :)

> and a *LOT* of RAM (2GB territory on a dedicated server, double

Yep :)

> that if this box is sharing with other things).  Are you sure you're not
> hitting some resource limit?
>

This only happens on one of the several mail servers, doesnt seem to be an 
issue on any of the others and only some of the time.

> MailScanner needed more file handles than I was allowing it and resulted in
> the sort of "hang" you describe above when the mail queues got big.  Once I
> upped the file handles limit everything was peachy again.  There were plenty
> of messages in the logs (/var/log/messages and /var/log/kernel.log on Linux)
> which gave me the necessary clue.

Mine get none, the usual child starting blah blah, found and processed 
X number of messages and thats it..
So I guess its a case of the childs starts, processes its first batch then 
ninite we go :(

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Cheers
Res