Upgraded to 4.67.6, MailScanner scans a batch then hangs at 100 percent CPU

[Steve Crumley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of --[ UxBoD ]--
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:29 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Upgraded to 4.67.6, MailScanner scans a batch 
> then hangs at 100 percent CPU
> 
> do you have strace installed on the server ? if so when the 
> process is running at 100% CPU connect to it and see what it 
> is doing.  I had this before, but for the life of me I cannot 
> remember what I changed to fix it :(
> 
> Things to check :-
> 
> 1) Permissions, are they all correct
> 2) Check MailScanner.conf again just to make sure no typos
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 

Here is the output from strace:

waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0
waitpid(-1, 0xbff09448, WNOHANG)        = 0




The system had been running fine for over a year, I can't find any
permission or setting change thats doing this, but I could be
overlooking something.
Thanks,
-Steve