Mike Brodbelt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
Me too. > 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:- So it's *still* doing this eh? > 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. Yep. > 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? No, you're not the only person seeing this behaviour. I ran into the same problem a while back and had to give up on Clamav. I decided not to revisit the program until I had a good reason to believe that the problem was really fixed this time as I had heard several times from the list that it had been corrected but each time found that it was not. I blew about 60 hours trying to get it to work and my supervisor was getting really pissed at how much time I was using up. -- Michael St. Laurent Hartwell Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- 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
