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I've had clamd die twice in the last 6 month's using the same setup. It caused almost the same symptoms as you are describing and was fixed by a killall -9 clamd (it's running under daemontools). I have sirens go off in my bedroom when the load average goes above 10 or the free mem drops below 200 meg.
It hasn't caused a hard lock yet but it would have if the sirens hadn't gone off. Having said that, I've had the same experience with ravlin8 and kaspersky. Actually, ravlin is even worse, I had to switch a client today to clamav because ravlin was using 2.5 gigs (yes gigs) of memory for some unknown reason.
Regards,
Rick
Daniel Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 10:35, Thomas Lamy wrote:
Hi,
in general spamassassin needs much more CPU power than clam. But no software is supposed to lock up a server :-). What MTA (and other related software) do you use? Which OS?
Thomas
Yeah the locking up was a bit of a shock to us too :) I mean, we thought maybe mail would crash and burn, which is relatively easy to fix, but machines completely locking up is a bit of a rarity. The worst part was having to do an fsck on 40 gigs of mail when it rebooted, not fun at all :)
Our MTA is qmail 1.03, modified in places to suit our needs (which means we can't really use any off the shelf virus checking software because the patches no longer work with our code :) The server is also running apache to run imp webmail, but i doubt that would be causing any problems. Binc IMAP is running in the background as well, but thats been running with no problems for a while now so probably isn't part of the equation either. The OS Slackware 8.1 running kernel 2.4.18.
Daniel
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