On Sunday 01 February 2004 4:06 am, Ola Thoresen wrote: > Sun, 01 Feb 2004 at 10:54 GMT Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Could you check clamd's memory consumption before and after the check, > > and quarantine mails which cause more than 10% memory increase? Would be > > _really_ helpful. > > clamd has now been running fine since I started it in the foreground in a > screen last night (local time). > > Right now it is consuming about 12 MB ram: > > (from 'top'): > 5635 clamav 16 0 14640 12M 13124 S 2.5 2.5 19:52 0 clamd > > This is what it does all the time. This server is scanning 5 - 50 mail > every _second_, so it is quite hard to se how much memory a single scan > uses, but the problem does not seem to be a constant leak of memory. > > The problem is that after a while, it will suddently start to use all > available memory, and after a few seconds the oom-killer will start > killing of processes, until clamd is killed. > > We can the restart it immediately, and it will run happily for a while, > until the same bug is triggered. > > As soon as I see this again, I will try to isolate the last "few" mails > and see if I can spot anything suspicious. > > > Rgds. > > Ola Thoresen
Ditto here. I've got around 10000 mailboxes and a few emails per second. Unfortunately it manages to lock my servers hard. Although I was using 2.4.19 and I'm not sure how good the OOM killer is. -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
