Nick, Sorry for a late reply.
> We're using the very excellent amavisd-new 2.4.2 (Debian's latest version) > with sophie as AV scanner. Occasionally sophie gets into a state where it > is accepting connections on the Unix socket but never replies to scan > requests. > > Amavis times out OK on its first connection, but the retry never seems to > time out. See log example below. Looking at the code, I can't see where > alarm() is set up again in ask_daemon_internal after the eval exits. You are right, the alarm is not restarted which lets the next attempt to run with no time limit. This needs fixing. > Sophie has a possible fix for this in v3.06beta which I am trying now but, > considering how much pain these Amavis hangs have caused me and since it > looks as if 2.4.4 has the same code, I hope it might be possible to add a > fix in Amavis to make sure it times out on retries. Will do. I'm just not sure whether I should bail out from the loop when a timeout is hit, or would it be worth giving Sophie another chance. If the later, time would need to be extended, and probably a time limit on the first attempt should be shortened somewhat to accomodate a second attempt. Did you have any experience whether Sophie will likely function normally after timing out once? Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
