mailscanner zombie and large output queue

[Krishna]

Hi,

        Mailscanner is configured with exim and spamassassin and
currently it has got some Zombie processes. This is the strace from one
of the processes.

       EAGAIN shows that it cannot get lock on a file and ENOTTY relates
to why mailscanner is looking for a character file.

       has this it do with the confguration of the mailscanner. I am
having quite a large output queue which does not get cleared on its own.

       Has any one experienced this before.

        umask(0133)                             = 077

        open("/mail/spool/exim.in/input/1HUTuF-0000Mj-DU-H", O_RDWR|
        O_LARGEFILE) = 6
        ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfeb3b78) = -1 ENOTTY
        (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
        _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
        fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=1191, ...}) = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
        len=0}, 0xa4c0988) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
        unavailable)
        close(6)                                = 0
        open("/mail/spool/exim.in/input/1HUTuI-0000Ml-2H-H", O_RDWR|
        O_LARGEFILE) = 6
        ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfeb3b78) = -1 ENOTTY
        (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
        _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
        fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=1027, ...}) = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
        len=0}, 0xa4c0988) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
        unavailable)
        close(6)                                = 0
        open("/mail/spool/exim.in/input/1HUTuR-0000N4-NO-H", O_RDWR|
        O_LARGEFILE) = 6
        ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfeb3b78) = -1 ENOTTY
        (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
        _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
        fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=1065, ...}) = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
        fcntl64(6, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
        len=0}, 0xa4c0988) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
        unavailable)
        close(6)                                = 0
        umask(077)                              = 0133
        time(NULL)                              = 1174595367
        
        
        Kind regards,
        Krishna
        
        


For more information about the Viatel Group, please visit www.viatel.com

THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INTENDED RECIPIENT TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE.  If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited, and you should delete this e-mail from your system.

This message has been scanned for viruses and spam by Viatel MailControl - www.viatel.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/attachments/20070326/83efac21/attachment.html