On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:53, Kevin Way wrote: > I've been having problems with clamd spinning out of control on one of > my servers. The machine in question is a FreeBSD 5.4-p8 server running > clamav 0.87.1. > > clamd will start eating all CPU, and stop responding to TERM signals, > sending the load from 0.2 or so to about 4. There's no obvious evidence > of the problem in the clam logs. > > I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how best to troubleshoot this > issue.
What was it doing just before it starts doing this? For instance, can you check your logs to isolate the file/attachment it was scanning? We had a similar problem and I was able to identify a particular email attachment that would send clamd (0.86.2) into just such a tailspin. Brian -- Brian McDonald Never confuse being nice with being a tool. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
