optimisation hints required & broken links on wiki

[Sandro Dentella]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
> What is your setting for 'Max Children' in MailScanner.conf?
> Given your processor and amount of RAM it should be set to no more than
> 10.

I had 25 I lowered to 10. And of course killed MailScanner and restarted.
What strikes me is that

sarge-netorange:/opt/MailScanner/etc/rules# ps ax|grep MailSca
 9015 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
 9016 ?        S      0:27 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9072 ?        S      0:34 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9172 ?        R      0:28 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9234 ?        S      0:27 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9328 ?        S      0:30 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9424 ?        S      0:26 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9498 ?        S      0:26 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9593 ?        R      0:29 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
 9700 ?        S      0:23 MailScanner: checking with Spam Lists
 9806 ?        S      0:26 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13591 ?        D      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13608 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13618 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13635 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13651 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13724 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13726 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
13729 ?        R      0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
sarge-netorange:/opt/MailScanner/etc/rules# ps ax|grep MailSca|wc -l
22

that's 21 children to me not 10. How come?

Many of these processes are in S (sleeping) state. What does that mean?
Are those processes waiting for something?

sandro

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