/etc/init.d/MailScanner stop: caught SIGTERM, aborting

[Jarry]

Julian Field wrote:

>> No, I'm using F-Prot, and no SpamAssassin. My server has 2GB memory,
>> and out of it, running a few vservers. The one serving mail (strip-down
>> gentoo, with sendmail, f-prot and mailscanner) eats ~350MB physical
>> memory right after boot, out of that more than 300MB is mailscanner.
>> I could not believe it, when I saw it for the first time. 300 megs!!!

> And memory costs about 20 or 30 quid per gigabyte, roughly speaking. 

Memory-slots in motherboard are a little more expensive. Especially
if they are all already occupied...

> What's your question again?

 >>>> And the 2nd problem, MailScanner is eating too much memory:
 >>>>
 >>>> # ps aux | grep MailScanner
 >>>> root  8047  0.0  0.7  93148 31084 ?  Ss   13:53   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> master
 >>>> waiting for children, sleeping
 >>>> root  8048  0.0  1.5 140136 64692 ?  S    13:53   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> waiting
 >>>> for messages
 >>>> root  8140  0.0  1.5 140136 64696 ?  S    13:54   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> waiting
 >>>> for messages
 >>>> root  8173  0.0  1.5 140136 64696 ?  S    13:54   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> waiting
 >>>> for messages
 >>>> root  8176  0.0  1.5 140140 64696 ?  S    13:54   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> waiting
 >>>> for messages
 >>>> root  8177  0.0  1.5 140140 64696 ?  S    13:54   0:00 MailScanner:
 >>>> waiting
 >>>> for messages
 >>>>
 >>>> ~330 MB RESS, ~1GB VIRTS, is *this* normal?

That above mentioned *this* does not apply to virtual size only,
but resident size too. But if my question is not clear, let me
rephrase it:

In my case, MailScanner takes right after the start about 300MB
of physical memory (default installation, f-prot, no antispam).
Is it normal for MailScanner to take so much memory?

That is all I want to know. At the first moment, I thought about
memory leak or configuration being screwed up. That value simply
scared me, because all services on all virtual servers on that
physical server together do not take so much memory...

Jarry

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