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I've set MailScanner to "1 child process only" when I've encountered
two different scenarios:<br>
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1. Low system resources (128MB RAM, 5400rpm drives, 500Mhz CPU's)<br>
2. Locking problems somewhere in the mix (either dovecot, or sendmail,
or procmail, or something). Keeping only one process writing to the
mailboxes seems to make it less likely.<br>
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Hans de Groot wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
I gues it is allright then. It is just that mailwatch reports 2 or 3
childs active in it status table.
Regards,
Hans de Groot
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:05:10 +0000
Julian Field <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk></a> wrote:
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On 22 Feb 2006, at 09:49, Hans de Groot wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello all,
I would like mailscanner to only use one child process.
It should check the queue every 60 seconds and process any mail
that is
there. But only using one process since I am low on system resources
I set the option max children=1
But it seems to ignore this setting. I often see 2 or 3 children
running.
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<pre wrap="">No, everything is fine. The 1 child you have generates temporary
processes for things like virus scanning. You will find that these
extra processes come and go quite a lot.
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