Numerous pid's

[Julian Field]

That all looks quite normal to me. Don't worry about it. Only start 
worrying when your queue is growing consistently, all the processes are 
reporting that they are doing something, and that your "uptime" load 
average is 15 or above.

Robert Isaac wrote:
> 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
>>     
>
>
>   

Jules

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