Numerous pid's

[Robert Isaac]

Yes Max Children is set to 5. grep gives this:
11433 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
sleeping
11434 ?        S      0:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages
11442 ?        S      0:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages
11443 ?        S      0:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages
11444 ?        S      0:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages
11448 ?        S      0:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18894 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
sleeping
18895 ?        S      0:06 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18898 ?        S      0:06 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18907 ?        S      0:06 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18938 ?        S      0:06 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18941 ?        S      0:06 MailScanner: waiting for messages
18629 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep MailScanner 

The server does not handle a lot of mail, only stuff on our domain routed
from the ISP. SA kills off about 10Mb of spam a day. I only have 6 users on
the system.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
Of Julian Field
Sent: 04 January 2007 20:38
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Numerous pid's

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