[Mimedefang] abnormal cpu usage

[Muhammad Talha]

Dear all

i have Redhat 9 Pentitum II 398.950 MHz 1 GB RAM .kernel 2.4.26
/var/spool/MIMEdefang  mounted as tmpfs
server is not too much busy . MX_MAXIMUM=40 last month i removed
spamassassin because of heavy load
but still the same problem exists.

mimedefang keep on opening new process more than 40 like below

[root at magic root]# pgrep mimedefang | wc -l
     80

09:52:27  up 9 min,  1 user,  load average: 40.24, 27.17, 12.86

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
1114 defang     9   0  1376 1372   684 S    99.9  0.1   0:00   0 mimedefang
1284 defang    20   0  9756 9752  1908 R     8.2  0.9   1:53   0
mimedefang.pl
8730 defang    19   0  9708 9704  1908 R     8.0  0.9   0:04   0
mimedefang.pl
1281 defang    20   0  9908 9904  1908 R     7.8  0.9   2:32   0
mimedefang.pl
8515 defang    20   0  9656 9652  1908 R     7.8  0.9   0:24   0
mimedefang.pl
8711 defang    20   0  9708 9704  1908 R     7.6  0.9   0:07   0
mimedefang.pl
1110 defang    17   0  9896 9892  1916 R     7.4  0.9   4:45   0
mimedefang.pl
1120 defang    20   0  9900 9896  1908 R     7.4  0.9   4:14   0
mimedefang.pl
1265 defang    20   0  9868 9864  1908 R     7.2  0.9   3:07   0
mimedefang.pl
1294 defang    19   0  9852 9848  1908 R     7.2  0.9   1:20   0
mimedefang.pl
1277 defang    18   0  9864 9860  1908 R     6.8  0.9   2:45   0
mimedefang.pl
0077 root      17   0  1516 1516  1152 R     3.1  0.1   0:00   0 snmpwalk