Long Child Startup Times

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sun Jul 1 19:14:25 IST 2007


On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:12:55 -0400 Darren Benfer <darren at serversphere.com> wrote:
>
>> Lately it seems like it takes MS children take forever to start up for
>> some reason, and my server load climbs to 4-5 while they are doing so.
>> Anyone else experiencing (or experienced) this? Anything I should check
>> into for a fix? Worked well for about year, but latest update for MS
>> started this trend.
>
> Please provide more info - MailScanner versions before and now, what virus
> scanners are used, MTA (sendmail? postfix?) etc.

Also run something like top to see which process is in fact consuming 
resources.

Hugo.

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