Long Child Startup Times

[Glenn Steen]

On 01/07/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> 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.
I'm with Jules on this one, clamav 0.90.something and clamavmodule
will have exactly this effect. Then again, asking for more info tobe
able to give better help is never wrong either....:-)

Cheers
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