On 11 Mar 2010 at 11:09, Jim Preston wrote: > On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Paul Whelan wrote: > > > > > On 11 Mar 2010 at 14:32, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > >> On 11.03.10 11:24, Paul Whelan wrote: > >>> I'm getting occasional OOM faults apparently originating from > >>> clamd on > >>> debian. > >> > >> OOM means out of memory. Either you are low on real/virtual memory, > >> or you > >> have memory leak somewhere. Check your memory status over time. > > > > Yes, I have. No problems except for two oom faults in the last > > fortnight. > > > > paul > > Is it possible that there was/were large attachments in an email at > that time that caused it to run out of memory? What do other logs say > was happening to the system around the time of the OOMs?
Possible, but difficult to verify. Do large attachments cause clamd to grab 100MB extra memory to scan? Clamd log at the time is quiet as are most others. A cron job had just started and completed OK. paul _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
