Nicklas,

> Ran into some strange things today:
> Seems like the RAR decoder (unrar) doesn't cope very well with large .rar
> files (~15MB).
>
> First of all I got this message in the log:
> Decoding of p002 (RAR archive data, v1d, os: Win32) failed, leaving it
> unpacked: timed out
>
> And then I got (obviously with a hogged clamscan process):
> xxx /etc/rc2.d/S20amavisd[500]: (00500-193) ClamAV-clamscan av-scanner
> FAILED: /usr/local/bin/clamscan DIED on signal 9 (0009) at (eval 38) line
> 435.

> Any ideas, suggestions?
> We have have now switched to clamd instead of clamscan. Any other
> suggestions beside that, to avoid this kind of behavior?

Sorry, no good suggestions, besides disabling unrar or increasing
time limits. Try suggesting to ClamAV folks to impose a time limit
when they invoke some decoding library which is beyond their control.

> When this happened I was running cpio and not pax. Switched to pax, right
> after this happened.

That's unrelated, although using pax is safer than cpio for other reasons.

  Mark


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