Sure, its not really relevant to ClamAV which is why I omitted it but
basically the logic in our node application was incorrect so we were
returning a status before the stream was closed which was causing our
problem.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Shawn Webb <latt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to share that knowledge so that others who may have
> the
> same experience can draw from yours?
>
> On Friday, 28 August 2015 05:22:16 PM Alexander Urcioli wrote:
> > I'm happy to report we located the bug which was not at all due to
> clamav.
> > However knowledge gained! Thanks everyone.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015, 12:31 Shawn Webb <latt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 27 August 2015 01:48:00 PM Charles Swiger wrote:
> > > > On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Alexander Urcioli <alex...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > We were running into an issue where larger files were not able to
> be
> > >
> > > moved
> > >
> > > > > after scanning with ClamAV. Our hypothesis was that perhaps the
> > > > > process
> > > > > has
> > > > > not released access to the file and we were experiencing a race
> > >
> > > condition.
> > >
> > > > > Upon investigating I attempted to monitor the file we were scanning
> > >
> > > using
> > >
> > > > > lsof on repeat mode. To my suprise, upon scanning a 900MB file with
> > > > > clamscan and clamdscan, lsof never lists the file as being opened
> > > > > by....anything...
> > > >
> > > > It's not unusual for programs to read file data via mmap() rather
> than
> > > > open().
> > > >
> > > > That said, it's also quite possible that a 900 MB file is being
> skipped
> > > > entirely due to MaxScanSize setting, which defaults to 100 MB unless
> you
> > > > have changed it.
> > >
> > > A file descriptor still has to be opened for mmap. lsof would show that
> > > file as
> > > being opened. Your thinking about ClamAV's scan size settings are
> likely
> > > correct. What I'd do is scan that one archive with verbose debugging
> mode
> > > enabled in clamscan. That will tell you if ClamAV skipped the file due
> to
> > > scan
> > > size limits.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Shawn_______________________________________________
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