> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Fretwell > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:56 PM > To: ClamAV users ML > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd lockup ? > > > Jason Frisvold wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The clamd process on one of my mail servers appears to have locked up > > earlier today. I was unable to restart or kill the process. In fact, > > I had to do a hard reset to fix the problem. > > > > So, Im wondering what steps I can take next time to a) determine why > > clamd has locked up, b) gather sufficient debugging information for > > the clamav team, and c) kill and restart the process without the hard > > reboot. > > > > Can anyone give me some pointers? I understand that there's not a lot > > of information here. I'm looking for what to do next time, assuming > > there is a next time.. :) > > > If a 'kill -9' will not kill the process, I would say your problem lies > elsewhere than with Clam. That would be more indicative of a hardware or > OS problem. >
If the process is trying some I/O to some not-available, hard-mounted NFS filesystem, then the process will not die with 'kill -9'. Just a thought. -Samuel _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
