amavisd-status reporting issue

[Mark Martinec via amavis-users]

Quanah,

> I noticed when running amavisd-status, it always reports 0 children
> for the first 2 checks (when using 1 second intervals):
> 
> $ ./amavisd-status
> process-id task-id     elapsed in    elapsed-bar (dots indicate idle)
>           or state   idle or busy
> 
> 0 active, 0 idling processes
> 
> 
> 0 active, 0 idling processes
> 
> 
> 0 active, 10 idling processes
> ..........
> 
> 0 active, 10 idling processes
> ..........

Yes, this is normal.

The amavisd-status starts with no information on the number of running
amavisd child processes. The actual count is broadcast periodically
by the 'amavis-services childproc-minder' process, so this is when
the amavisd-status catches up, every couple of seconds.

   Mark