Numerous pid's

[Julian Field]

What is your "Max Children" set to? I would suspect it's 5. Do a
    ps ax | grep MailScanner
and you will see what all the processes are doing. Don't just kill 
processes on a whim, that's a real dangerous game to play. Having 
(2*maxchildren+1) processes is quite normal.

Robert Isaac wrote:
> I have MailScanner running on RHES 4. My cron job
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner reports: MailScanner running with pid
> 11433 11434 11442 11443 11444 11448 18894 18895 18898 18907 18938 18941.
> Should there be this number or should I kill some off? 
>
> Bob
> Director/Web Admin
> Volvo Owners Club
>
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Jules

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