Hi, I've made the odd bit of noise about this on the list before, but I'm repeating myself because this particular problem is inordinately painful for me...
Running Clamav and clamav-milter (now the 20040204 snapshot, but this is an ongoing issue) with sendmail 8.12.10, and I get regular problems with ClamAV spawning huge numbers of child processes, and generally falling over. To gove an example, I upgraded to the CVS snapshot this morning, with clamav-milter 0.66k, and started the daemon at about 11:30:- Feb 5 11:34:42 castor clamav-milter[790]: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040205', clamav-milter version '0 .66k' The first problems showed up just over an hour later:- Feb 5 12:39:54 castor clamav-milter[10759]: hit max-children limit (5 >= 5): waiting for some to exit Feb 5 12:40:28 castor clamav-milter[11254]: hit max-children limit (5 >= 5): waiting for some to exit Feb 5 12:40:54 castor clamav-milter[10759]: ClamAv: private data not NULL Feb 5 12:41:28 castor clamav-milter[11254]: ClamAv: private data not NULL This carries on until I notice, and restart it. In an hour, it had got to this:- Feb 5 13:23:42 castor clamav-milter[16550]: ClamAv: private data not NULL Feb 5 13:23:43 castor clamav-milter[16567]: hit max-children limit (136 >= 5): waiting for some to exit Feb 5 13:23:46 castor clamav-milter[16572]: hit max-children limit (136 >= 5): waiting for some to exit The number of processes grows beyond the max-children limit, though at least some of them die, as the actual process count doesn't keep pace with the logged number. While it's in this state, messages aren't virus checked, as sendmail just waits for the milter to time-out, and then gives up on it. I've had these problems since I installed ClamAv, about 4 1/2 months ago. They used to result in it going belly up every 2-3 days, but they seem to have got worse - I now rarely get more than a couple of hours "life" out of it. I'm happy to provide any more information if it would help, but I'm seriously considering uninstalling it at this stage - it's only working about half the time because of this, and it causes mail slow downs the rest of the time, while sendmail waits for the timeouts. Surely I can't be the only person experiencing this - I'm not running anything that weird and wonderful? Mike. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
