MailScanner slowing server down

Hi there.

I've installed MailScanner + SpamAssassin + ClamAV. However when I start MailScanner it brings the server to it's knees even with no mail to scan.

For some reason once it starts it keep on trying to start itself very 30 secs or so:

root@sol: /opt/MailScanner/bin: tail -f -n100 /var/log/mail.msg
Jan 2 02:09:03 sol MailScanner[915]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:09:49 sol MailScanner[924]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:10:34 sol MailScanner[928]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:11:56 sol MailScanner[948]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:13:54 sol MailScanner[968]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:14:45 sol MailScanner[978]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:16:23 sol MailScanner[997]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:17:56 sol MailScanner[1010]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:20:19 sol MailScanner[1036]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:22:11 sol MailScanner[1060]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:24:25 sol MailScanner[1087]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starting...
Jan 2 02:24:26 sol MailScanner[1036]: Using locktype = flock
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root@sol: /opt/MailScanner/bin: ps auxw | grep -i mail
root 384 0.1 0.5 3396 628 ? S 01:24 0:56 sendmail: Queue runner@00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
root 2167 1.1 9.1 12872 11336 ? S 16:30 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2171 3.4 25.5 33596 31716 ? S 16:30 0:04 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2184 4.7 25.5 33596 31720 ? S 16:30 0:05 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2201 12.9 25.5 33596 31740 ? S 16:30 0:13 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2202 18.4 12.7 17332 15852 ? D 16:31 0:17 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2218 8.0 9.6 13508 12020 ? D 16:32 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib ./MailScanner
root 2220 0.0 0.2 **** 288 pts/0 R 16:32 0:00 grep -i mail

Anybody have any ideas why this might be?

Thanks, Rob

 

 

 

 

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