Hi there [Summary: I reported such problems back in 0.67 - they still exist]
After seeing that 0.70 had been released, I thought to try clamd again with Qmail-Scanner. Unfortunately, within 8 hours of using it successfully, clamd hung and that was that. Any further invocations of clamdscan just hung forever :-( If it matters, all those clamd processes didn't take much CPU... By the time I got to look at it, I had over 440 clamd processes running, with the cause of the problem being one that was 49M in process size! I run clamd under daemontools with a memory limit of 50M. What looks to have happened is some bug in clamd allowed it to attempt to grow to 50M - the limit stopped it, and then all future clamd processes couldn't allocate memory either. I can't be sure, but I think the message it was scanning was a standard Outlook text message - i.e. a text/plain plus a winmail.dat file... [yeah Microsoft, let's take a nice 1.5Kb text e-mail and turn it into a 7Kb monster - well done] Details: OS: Redhat8 Ver: 0.70 /service/clamd/run #!/bin/sh rm -f /var/spool/qmailscan/clamd exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -a 50000000 /usr/local/sbin/clamd \ > /var/log/clamd.log 2>&1 /var/log/clamd.log ends with tonnes of: LibClamAV Warning: Ignoring empty field in " charset=" LibClamAV Warning: Ignoring empty field in " charset=" LibClamAV Error: cli_realloc(): Can't re-allocate memory to 2384880 byte. realloc_problem: Cannot allocate memory LibClamAV Error: cli_realloc(): Can't re-allocate memory to 3420 byte. realloc_problem: Cannot allocate memory ... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
