-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karolis Dautartas wrote: >> Which version? > It was 0.87. After reading your email I upgraded to 0.88.1 Good. Which OS are you on? > >> What does your freshclam log say? > It had been disabled in the config files. I have enabled it now. > Aparently the log says something very similar to what I get when > executing program on the shell. On the shell I get the following: > > ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr 5 13:27:16 2006 main.cvd > is up to date (version: 37, sigs: 46700, f-level: 7, builder: > ccordes) Downloading daily.cvd [*] ERROR: Mirrors are not fully > synchronized. Please try again later. Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr 5 13:33:27 2006 main.cvd > is up to date (version: 37, sigs: 46700, f-level: 7, builder: > ccordes) Downloading daily.cvd [*] ERROR: Mirrors are not fully > synchronized. Please try again later. Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr 5 13:39:50 2006 main.cvd > is up to date (version: 37, sigs: 46700, f-level: 7, builder: > ccordes) Downloading daily.cvd [\] > > This time it took about 15 minutes for the process to finish. That is way too long. Should be a matter of seconds or tens of seconds if the server extremely loaded. Try changing the default mirror to another one. > >> >> Tried verbose option? >> > Not until I have read your email. I have launched verbose version > now, it is still running ... > > I also tried to fetch the main.cvd file with wget. It took several > minutes to establish connection, and the transfer rate is about 100 > bytes per second. > >> Why run Freshclam from cron instead of the freshclam daemon? > > No idea. It was suggested to run it that way at the time I > installed it for the first time. And that was probably more than a > year ago. Personally, I'm more in favor of running freshclam as a daemon. It would at least stop you from getting a zillion processes like you have now. Do note that I consider 100+ freshclam processes a bug. It shouldn't be allowed to happen, or at least generate a severe warming somewhere. Second, I take it not all those processes are downloading anymore. Netstat should tell you that. > >> In which state are those frozen processes, e.g. what are doing? > > Not sure, I think they are still "downloading" :) > > I have several processes from Mar 20, then Mar 22, Mar 27, then a > lot of processes from Mar 29, 30, 31, Apr 01, 02, 03... > > Could this be that the mirrors are overloaded? I really think I can > contribute to this software by hosting one of the mirrors and at > least have normal downloads of updates. I would start with killing all processes. There is no point if having so many processes doing the same, and they may actually be causing more problems. > > Karolis
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