--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "R. Steven Rainwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter seems unstable with 0.87 To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
>Thanks Todd, this was the first thing I've tried >that helped. Prior to >0.87, we were running max children at 25 and never >had problems. I >bumped it up to 40 now and that seems to have helped >somewhat. We're >still getting a couple of the error messages in the >log every hour but >it seems that overall, clamav-milter is now able to >continue longer >before sendmail starts rejecting everything. I >adjusted my cron job to >restart clamav-milter once a day instead of once an >hour, so things are >relatively stable compared to yesterday. >I still find it odd that 0.87 seems so broken. All >the previous >versions >we've run on this machine have been very stable. And >I take it this is >not a problem anyone else is seeing, making it even >more of a mystery. >Taking a clue from the max children setting, I >started monitoring the >processes and I now have a hunch about what's >happening. I think that >certain emails are crashing clamav-milter or clamd >when it reads them, >causing the processes to hang. I've noticed that >each time we get one >of >the errors in the log, an additional clamav-milter >process gets >"stuck", >so that over time, we collect more and more stuck >processes until max >children is hit and everything blows up. Steve, What errors, if any, are you getting in /path/to/clamd.log? Are you seeing segfaults there? -- N. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
