Hi mailinglist, On Mit, 2009-09-23 at 11:44 -0500, Dan Denton wrote: [...] > I've got an RHEL 3 server (yes, I know...) running clamd on generic > hardware. When I start clamd, it appears two processes are created. > None of my other systems do this (RHEL 4 and 5 systems). I didn't > notice this happening until a couple days ago when nagios started > alerting low memory on the system. > > Whenever I start the process by invoking clamd and specifiying the > config file, it starts without error. When I run top, it shows two > processes with separate PID's running, using the same amount of > resources. When I do a "ps -ef", it only shows one of them. If do a > kill on the second unseen PID, it kills them both. > > Can anyone tell me if this is something RHEL 3 has always done and I > just haven't noticed it, or is this out of the norm?
That's smells like RHEL3 ist using linuxthreads (and not the more current NTPL) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
