First sorry for my bad english. I have the problem, that clamscan goes in an "uninterruptible sleep" if more than one processes are running (need it for scanning e-mails).
Here is the ps output of one clamscan process: # ps wufax USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ... root 357 0.0 0.8 2236 252 ? S Apr14 2:13 /usr/sbin/sshd root 17139 0.0 0.7 2904 208 ? S 10:47 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/sshd root 17140 0.0 2.1 2676 636 pts/0 S 10:47 0:00 | \_ -bash root 17566 89.0 36.3 11720 10688 pts/0 R 11:58 0:01 | \_ clamscan -i -r / ... You can repeat the ps. You will always see a running process (R). root 17197 82.0 37.3 12032 10980 pts/0 R 10:52 1:37 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 82.0 37.6 12032 11068 pts/0 R 10:52 1:40 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 81.4 37.7 12032 11084 pts/0 R 10:52 1:40 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 80.9 37.7 12032 11092 pts/0 R 10:52 1:41 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 80.6 37.3 12032 10980 pts/0 R 10:52 1:41 | \_ clamscan -i -r / But if you run 2 processes : clamscan -i -r / & clamscan -i -r / & You can see, that sometimes a process is in the D-state (uninterruptible sleep) root 17197 79.3 29.8 11900 8760 pts/0 D 10:52 1:43 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 60.5 25.1 8720 7380 pts/0 R 10:55 0:01 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 75.5 22.1 11900 6508 pts/0 R 10:52 1:45 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 20.4 29.3 11740 8608 pts/0 D 10:55 0:02 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 72.3 19.4 12032 5728 pts/0 D 10:52 1:47 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 24.4 36.1 11928 10620 pts/0 D 10:55 0:04 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 69.2 23.6 12032 6956 pts/0 R 10:52 1:47 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 27.5 36.3 11812 10684 pts/0 R 10:55 0:07 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 67.8 29.4 12032 8660 pts/0 D 10:52 1:48 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 32.2 36.8 11940 10824 pts/0 R 10:55 0:10 | \_ clamscan -i -r / if you run 3 processe, all processes are the most time in the D-state. root 17197 64.3 21.5 12032 6316 pts/0 D 10:52 1:50 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 31.1 30.5 11944 8988 pts/0 D 10:55 0:13 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17252 12.2 15.8 6420 4664 pts/0 D 10:55 0:00 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 58.3 16.1 12032 4752 pts/0 D 10:52 1:50 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 23.3 26.9 11944 7912 pts/0 D 10:55 0:14 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17252 9.1 17.9 11648 5268 pts/0 D 10:55 0:02 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 53.9 16.4 12032 4820 pts/0 D 10:52 1:51 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 18.8 24.6 11944 7228 pts/0 D 10:55 0:14 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17252 7.5 13.4 11736 3952 pts/0 D 10:55 0:03 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17197 39.2 14.4 12036 4248 pts/0 R 10:52 2:07 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17241 13.8 24.9 12004 7332 pts/0 D 10:55 0:27 | \_ clamscan -i -r / root 17252 4.9 16.1 11796 4752 pts/0 D 10:55 0:07 | \_ clamscan -i -r / but you can kill them with killal -9 clamscan because they are nut the whole time in the D-state (but the most) I have tested this on 2 different computers on SuSE Linux. If I run the McAfee uvscan, I can start many processes an see always running processes (R-state) Have you any ideas ? Thank You Markus _______________________________________________________ ________________________WWW-Pool_______________________ Hostmaster Dipl.-Ing. Markus Wawersich Tel:07273/919713 Dammstr. 45 Fax: 07273/92049 76776 Neuburg E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www-pool.de ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Clamav-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-devel
