* On 04/12/05 11:53 -0500, 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. > > Kevin Way
From your MTA's end, what sort of message sizes do you give clamd to scan? FWIW, I use Exim as my MTA and I only send messages less that 512k to clamd. Anything above that size is assumed to be safe, but that's by myself. Fortunately, it's me who decides on such aspects. YMMV. There are other factors to look at as well, so you better describe your server environment and mail volumes, etc, even give a glimpse into your clamd.conf (egrep -v "#|^$" /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf) to enable us give second opinion. My 0.87.1 is very stable on several servers. On the main box, I run CVS, strangely! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Too much of everything is just enough. -- Bob Wier _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
