dying children?

[Jon Dustin]

>>> On 7/29/2008 at 10:52 AM, in message
<7d9b3cf20807290752l1a422d5fm841727198b337990 at mail.gmail.com>, "Eduardo
Casarero" <ecasarero at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/29 Jon Dustin <jdustin at usm.maine.edu>
> 
>> Greetings -
>>
>>
>> Last night I began digging around and discovered the MailScanner children
>> are dying very quickly (just a few minutes), and replaced with new siblings.
>> If I understand MailScanner's architecture, the children should live for 12
>> hours before being replaced by the master?
>>
>> This morning I have upgraded one MailScanner node to the latest STABLE
>> version (v4.70.7), but the problem still remains.
>>
>>
>> At this point it appears some messages are being scanned multiple times by
>> different children, which slows the process down dramatically. Thinking this
>> was a locking issue, I changed Lock Type to posix, also with no effect.
>>
>>
> 
> In MailScanner.conf what do you have in "Restart Every" ??
> 
> # To avoid resource leaks, re-start periodically. Forces a re-read of all
> # the configuration files too, so new updates to the bad phishing sites list
> # are read frequently.
> Restart Every = 14400

I have the default, Restart Every = 14400

Another update: It appears only certain messages cause the children to die, as there are some in the queue that seem to be scanned MANY times:

Jul 29 10:53:02 mail2 MailScanner[14863]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.1BC27 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
Jul 29 10:53:49 mail2 MailScanner[15327]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.E8E41
Jul 29 10:54:33 mail2 MailScanner[15327]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.E8E41 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
Jul 29 10:54:36 mail2 MailScanner[15600]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.8BF99
Jul 29 10:55:35 mail2 MailScanner[15600]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.8BF99 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
Jul 29 10:55:56 mail2 MailScanner[15735]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.F3A78

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