Jason, I Googled my clamav problem (memory usage grows!) and found this thread. I've had numerous OOM with my production box so I thought running Softlimit+Clamd would be a good idea. The problem is I get get segmentation fault error and all the clamd processes seems to hang.
You mentioned that you figured out the problem, can you please provide details on this? Thanks! -Richie >Re: [Clamav-users] clamd still hangs with 0.70 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >From: Jason Haar >Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd still hangs with 0.70 >Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:44:54 -0700 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >>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: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
