Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Cody Baker wrote: A fair while back, .53ish i think, I tried clamd daemonized on a reasonably large scale server (300,000 message per day). It would last about half a day before crashing. As for .70 currently I'm only running it daemonized with daemontools on a few small scale servers an

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Cody Baker
A fair while back, .53ish i think, I tried clamd daemonized on a reasonably large scale server (300,000 message per day). It would last about half a day before crashing. As for .70 currently I'm only running it daemonized with daemontools on a few small scale servers and have had no issues wi

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Clive Eisen
Bu I see no evidence that clamd leaks - doeas anyone else? Cody Baker wrote: If clamd was hitting the softlimits then yes, clamd might affected but the system as a whole would not be. Where as if it was just run without supervision then clamd's leaks would continue to grow without bound until

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Cody Baker
If clamd was hitting the softlimits then yes, clamd might affected but the system as a whole would not be.  Where as if it was just run without supervision then clamd's leaks would continue to grow without bound until blammo, the system crashes, much as it is in this case. Cody Baker 330.934.0

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Jonathan Tai
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 15:12, Clive Eisen wrote: > Jason Haar wrote: > > > > >Do you run clamd under daemontools? (as a supervise script). If so, stop it. > >Run it as a rc-script instead. I have found and heard of so many problems > >with memory leaks/etc that make clamd under daemontools a very b

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Clive Eisen
Jason Haar wrote: Do you run clamd under daemontools? (as a supervise script). If so, stop it. Run it as a rc-script instead. I have found and heard of so many problems with memory leaks/etc that make clamd under daemontools a very bad idea. Why do you think that an rc script will be different

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 09:43:13PM +0100, Nick Holden wrote: > I am not a technical guru by any stretch of the imagination, so I'd > appreciate some guidance as to what might be causing my system to > suddenly suffer this problem. Are other users of qmail-scanner, clam and > spam assassin seeing a

[Qmail-scanner-general]Too many files open errors

2004-05-09 Thread Nick Holden
I'm using qmail-scanner with Clam AV and also Spam Assassin. Everything has worked wonderfully until about ten days ago when the mail server suddenly collapsed and refused to allow command-line log in, or anything else. Having pulled the plug and rebooted the log files suggested that the fatality w