John Harmon wrote:
SYMPTOMS/ISSUE: 1. Occassionaly cannot send mail through mail client
over smtp to the server. If you wait 10-15 minutes it will typically
work again. 2. NEVER an issue if sending from within a browser.
3. After reboot server wont allow email clients to send email. After
20 minutes or so it starts allowing things through (but has problem #1
occassionaly (daily)).
John,
I had similar activity taking place, and I finally found in my clamd.log
that the 'database' was rebuilding approximately every 4 to 6 hours, and
while it was doing that, I had about a 15 minute period of 100% cpu
usage. I finally found it by using the mrtg charts to narrow down the
time, and then catching the 4 or 5 lines in the log that happened to
grab about 15minutes of time.
I fixed it by catching a thread on clamav that talked about the
particular version of clamav that had a known database type of problem.
I updated by hand to the newer version of clamav and the problem went away.
I had been running from a toaster install for almost 2 years untouched,
when I goofed something up and installed a new spamassassin. After
that is when the database issue showed up.
Hope this helps. Things have been so stable for so long that I have not
been following this list, and just happened to glance today. It is not
very often that I feel I can contribute.
Sam
