MailScanner <defunct> and 100% CPU from time to time

[Sarah Trayser]

On 05/01/07, Tomoiaga Cristian <cristi at elvsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with MailScanner.
>
> Distro: CentOS 4.4
> CPU: Intel P4 HT
> MailScanner 2.46
>
> I used the ConfigServ package to install it and everything worked well until
> I updated to 2.40. Everytime I started MailScanner, after a few seconds the
> first MailScanner childrens get <defunct> and stay that way until a new
> restart. And so on. I've checked maillog but everything looks OK, no errors.
>
> Updateing to 2.46 did not solve the <defunct> problem.
> I do not really mind that problem because those processes do not use mem and
>  CPU, but with 2.46 from time to time (from 30 to 30 minutes) I see
> MailScanner use 100% of my CPU and stops after receiving a SIGTERM.
> Does anyone know something about this ?

I suspect you mean version 2.46 of the ConfigServer installation
script for cPanel servers, rather than the version of MailScanner
itself. The ConfigServer install script v2.46 installed MailScanner
v4.56.8.


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