Andre H?bner:
> Hello,
>
> for testing purposes i wrote a policy-service for postfix as a shellscript.
> My Script is working very well, iam happy with its functionality ;)
> But unfortunately there is one problem when a lot of mails are incoming. the
> shellscript just does some grepping in small files etc. and is giving back
> a allowd result..
> My Shellscript is spawned from master.cf like this:
>
> policy-mycheck unix - n n - - spawn
> user=nobody argv=nice -n 15 /usr/lib/postfix/mycheckscript.sh
>
> When a lot of mails are incoming i got a high number of zombies. as a
> consequence of this my system load gets really high.
> Are there some general methods to avoid this?
Find out what is the parent process of the zombies. This parent
process is not cleaning up as it should.
Wietse
