On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:46:13PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Some of my business customers occasionally exchange very large > messages, for example today, a message about 83MB in size. When such > a message hits my clamd/spamassassin proxy server, clamd's size > 'explodes', and it start blocking the flow of other messages. for > example, in top, the resident size may be as high as 190MB. when this > occurs, i have to kill and restart clamd to restore normal > functionality (i'm running 0.88 in freebsd). of course, since the > huge message didn't go through, it sits on my MX, waiting to be > requeued, and the process starts all over again, until i bypass the > clam/spam proxy and just dump the message unscanned onto my popserver.
The usual suggestion in this case is roughly that - have whatever is feeding the message to clamav not do so for messages over a certain size. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everywhere. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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