On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Mike Cathey wrote: > ...lsof the pid and see what files it has open...then copy the files to > somewhere else and fire them off to the develpers. :)
Nope - that won't help. I just did that - twice within 10 minutes on my (currently) hung mail server. The first shows clamd (running just below the softlimit memory setting - again it ran out of memory) having bunches of library files, logfiles,etc open - plus one eml file. 10 minutes later it hasn't got that file open but has others open... i.e. it hasn't hung - it's now just going E.X.T.R.E.M.E.L.Y slowly... OK, I think I can trigger this at will at the moment. If I let clamdscan run over my SPAM Maildir folder (32,580 msgs) - which will be full of atrociously written MIME mail messages (if that matters), then over a few minutes clamd climbs up to the softlimit RAM limit and then clamd hangs (or goes slow - take your pick). Then all further clamdscan processes hang. If I then kill the "clamdscan -r SPAM/" process, then almost immediately all the other clamdscan processes finish (not crash!), and clamd memory usage drops back down to around 16M. Gah. I think I've figured out the problem. I'm running clamd under daemontools - which means I've set "Foreground" in clamav.conf... How does that affect the running of clamd? Does it force clamd to serialize requests by any chance...? -- 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
