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