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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MailScanner 4.30 is always running at least 1 or
more defunct processes. We dont see this issue very often in 4.29 installed on
our other servers. Whats causing Mailscanner to <defunct> all the
time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If i set the child processes to 2 in
MailScanner.conf i see 2 defunct processes and 3 running normally. When i select
2 why are their 5 processes anyway?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>root 21783 0.1
0.0 0 0
? Z
07:26 0:00 [MailScanner
<defunct>]<BR>root 21806 0.2
0.0 0 0
? Z
07:26 0:00 [MailScanner
<defunct>]<BR>root 19542 0.0 1.3 15812
14280 ? S
07:23 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
/usr/sbin/MailScanner /e<BR>root 19543 1.2
2.9 31288 29708 ? S
07:23 0:02 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
/usr/sbin/MailScanner /e<BR>root 19563 1.5
2.9 31292 29716 ? S
07:23 0:03 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
/usr/sbin/MailScanner /e</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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