On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > > 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.
Please note that I said "don't think" and "doubt", not "can't". Yes, hardware _may_ be at fault here. As I said above, I too have seen bad hardware do strange things. But, when _new_ _development_ code sig 11 exits on a _known_ _stable_ machine, I am inclined to think that the new development code may have an issue (if not in of itself then with the OS and/or environment). However, as the problem has not yet repeated, and no others have reported similar problems, I have no data from which to derive a hypothesis. -- Michael Lambert Systems Admin, IT Dept JEOL USA Inc http://www.jeol.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
