<html><body><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Mark,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I think I had the same problem in the past. Try following:<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Stop MailScanner</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Open two console windows. In console window one start "top" (the program you can use to monitor various system values)<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Start mailscanner in your second window<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I think you will see the following:<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Under CPU:</div><div>%id(le) goes to zero<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> %wa(it) is going nuts<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Swap memory is being filled up rapidly.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>If that is the case: Most easy solution: Expand your RAM. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I noted that a virtual machine with 2 GB with two MailScanner childs gives this behaviour. After moving to a server with 4 GB RAM all problems went away. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div>Met vriendelijke groet, Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Thom van der Boon</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">E-Mail: thom@vdb.nl</span></div><div><br></div><div><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">=====</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Thom.H. van der Boon b.v.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Transito 4</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">6909 DA Babberich<br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Tel.: +31 (0)88 4272727</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Fax: +31 (0)88 4272789</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Home Page: http://www.vdb.nl/</span></div></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>Van: </b>"Mark Sapiro" <mark@msapiro.net><br><b>Aan: </b>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<br><b>Verzonden: </b>Dinsdag 11 oktober 2016 18:30:09<br><b>Onderwerp: </b>Re: Problems after upgrade from 4.85 to 5.03<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">On 10/11/2016 01:12 AM, Daniel Malmgren wrote:<br><br>> Now it seems though that MailScanner<br>> processes the same messages again and again, like it's stuck in a loop,<br>> see log snippet below. The messages seem to stay in postfix's hold queue.<br><br><br>Messages staying in the Postfix hold queue is a side effect of the problem.<br><br>The issue you see in the log messages is a MailScanner child starts and<br>attempts to process the 2 messages in the Processing Attempts Database.<br>The first of these (9CC2E45321.A7F02) causes the child to die before it<br>does anything else including processing the Postfix hold queue.<br><br><br>See OP at<br><http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2016-October/103861.html><br>for log messages.<br><br><br>> Since I don't get any errors I don't really where to continue looking.<br>> Anyone see anything obvious?<br><br>I don't know why you aren't seeing some kind of error message in some<br>log, but you could try stopping MailScanner and then running<br><br>sudo MailScanner --processing<br><br>or<br><br>sudo MailScanner --processing=0<br><br>That probably won't say much. Then move<br>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db aside and start<br>MailScanner and see if that helps.<br><br>-- <br>Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,<br>San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan<br><br><br>-- <br>MailScanner mailing list<br>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<br>http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner<br></div></div></body></html>