On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Mike Lambert wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Friday 09 April 2004 5:21 pm, Mike Lambert wrote: > > > > > /kernel: pid 72343 (clamav-milter), uid 3001: exited on signal 11 > > > > You might want to check your hardware (especially the memory): > > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 > > "This FAQ describes what the possible causes are for an effect > that bothers lots of people lately. Namely that a linux(*)-kernel > (or any other large package for that matter) compile crashes with > a "signal 11"." > > While I appreciate your suggestion, I don't think it is relevant in this > case. This is happening on a machine (IBM x335) that has never crashed, > nor had any process exit under similar circumstance, in two years of > continuous operation (and I have complied the whole system, kernel > included, several times without error). I too have seen bad hardware do > some strange things, but I doubt that is the case here. > > I stopped and restarted the parent clamav-milter process. Virus laden > emails continue to be happily rejected, and with no more "clamav-milter > exited on signal 11" syslog errors (so far). I will monitor this > situation closely and report back as needed.
I just want to second what Antony said. Sig11 is almost always a hardware issue. Not guaranteed to be ram, though that's usually the case. I saw it once on a CPU. Underclocking helped. I'm disturbed by your belief that new problems can't occur. I have seen a machine that was stable for months start crashing daily. I've seen a machine that had been stable for years start reporting soft ECC errors. There are no guarantees in this business. Your restart probably gave it a different chunk of memory to run in, and therefore it's avoiding the bad ram. If you care about the stability of your machine, I strongly recommend finding a way to test the ram. If it's x86 hardware, then memtest86 works well. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers: |#=- -=#| UIUC CITES Security Group || Beckman Imaging Technology Group |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
