MailScanner processes hangs with no reason (to me)

[Robert Joosten]

Hi,

> The MailScanner rules directory is a NFS mounted share (to share rules 
> among several different installations)
> With apparent no reason "sometimes" at random period MS just hangs
> _llseek(4, 51712, [51712], SEEK_SET)    = 0
> _llseek(4, 0, [51712], SEEK_CUR)        = 0
> pipe([5, 6])                            = 0
> clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, 
> child_tidptr=0xb80a4b38) = 25538
> close(6)                                = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> waitpid(25538,

Well, try to find out what is process 25538 all about.

And second: just to be sure it's not a nfs problem (maybe it's locking 
some file and/or rpc.lockd isn't running or doing it's job properly (has 
it ever been ?), please do make those rules files available on it's local 
disc. If it points out to be this silly NFS solution, consider rsync 
though.

Hth.

Robert