[Mimedefang] abnormal cpu usage

[Paul Murphy]

From the list below:
 
> mimedefang keep on opening new process more than 40 like below
>  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

It looks like you have processes from a previous session (all PIDs starting with
8) as well as those from the current session, starting with 1, which were
spawned by 1114.

Linux systems have been reported previously to have problems in shutting down
slaves - to be sure, modify your init script to issue a pkill to all
mimedefang.pl processes as part of the stop section:

pkill -9 mimedefang.pl

Best Wishes,

Paul.
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