MailScanner is using all memory

[Andrew Colin Kissa]

On 17 Jan 2013, at 7:22 PM, Dave Gattis wrote:

> I'm not sure what has happened to MailScanner, but it now eats all memory
> in the system.  I installed 16 Gb of ram and reduced the child processes
> to zero as a test.  As soon as I start it up, it slowly climbs until all
> memory is exhausted.  This is a debian system.  Any help greatly
> appreciated.

There is a bug in the debian supplied version of mailscanner that causes
this, basically what happens is several mailscanner processes are
continuously started until the machine runs out of resources and
crashes

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649835

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