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[Steve Freegard]

Sandro Dentella wrote:
> 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
> sarge-netorange:/opt/MailScanner/etc/rules# ps ax|grep MailSca|wc -l
> 22
> 
> that's 21 children to me not 10. How come?

Try 'ps axf' instead, you'll see the parent process, then 10 children, 
the rest are sub-processes of each child (e.g. SpamAssassin):

[root at mail src]# ps axfw | grep MailScanner
21461 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: starting child
10741 ?        S      0:10  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
10795 ?        S      0:10  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
10851 ?        S      0:10  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
10894 ?        S      0:09  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
10935 ?        S      0:09  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
10976 ?        S      0:09  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
11020 ?        S      0:09  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
11092 ?        S      0:10  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
11154 ?        S      0:09  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
11219 ?        S      0:11  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages


Cheers,
Steve.