<p>I'm out with some kind of cold/flu, so not as ... on-toe as usual, sorry.<br>
Having said that, you need do some serious diging, to get a grip on what is going on... Listen to Steves excellent suggestions!<br>
Easy things you can do is disable different things (sa, sophos...) and see if it makes any difference.</p>
<p>Cheers<br>
-- <br>
-- Glenn</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">Den 29 dec 2010 09.35, "Torsten Bunde" <<a href="mailto:tb@sim.uni-hannover.de">tb@sim.uni-hannover.de</a>> skrev:<br><br>Hi Glenn,<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>On 28.12.2010 20:08, Glenn Steen wrote:<br>> So when does it go into spin? What does ps/top show the c...</font></p>if I'm using things like ps, top or htop that only shows up things like<br>
<br>
MailScanner: starting childen<br>
<br>
Nothing more.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> What does the logs say?<br></font></p>The logfile doesn't tell anything useful<br>
<br>
Dec 29 09:04:50 zeus MailScanner[7694]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner<br>
version 4.81.4 starting...<br>
Dec 29 09:04:50 zeus MailScanner[7694]: Reading configuration file<br>
/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf<br>
Dec 29 09:04:50 zeus MailScanner[7694]: Reading configuration file<br>
/opt/MailScanner/etc/conf.d/README<br>
Dec 29 09:04:50 zeus MailScanner[7694]: Read 867 hostnames from the<br>
phishing whitelist<br>
Dec 29 09:04:50 zeus MailScanner[7694]: Read 4162 hostnames from the<br>
phishing blacklists<br>
<br>
And this for every child process.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> Have you run the analyse thing for the sa cache? Is<br>> it ok? What about the processing db?<br></font></p>The sa cache seems to be ok but I found a hint, that there is a problem<br>
with perl and the actual installed and used Spamassassin-Version. I'll<br>
habe a look at that. Maybe this is the problem ...<br>
<br>
I'll test your other suggestions after that if it is still necessary.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> What av do you run?<br></font></p>I'm using (or better: I have to use) Sophos AntiVirus:<br>
<br>
server:~ # sweep --version<br>
SWEEP virus detection utility<br>
Copyright (c) 1989-2010 Sophos Group. All rights reserved.<br>
<br>
System time 09:30:03, System date 29 December 2010<br>
<br>
Product version : 4.60.0<br>
Engine version : 3.14.1<br>
Virus data version : 4.60<br>
User interface version : 2.07.293<br>
Platform : Linux/Intel<br>
Released : 06 December 2010<br>
Total viruses (with IDEs) : 2166503<br>
server:~ #<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>Regards<br>- Torsten<br>-- <br>MailScanner mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a></font></p><p><font color="#500050"><a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner">http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner</a><br>
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