On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:08:22AM +0100, Beginner said: > Hi, > > Debian 3.1, Alpha GNU/Linux 2.4.27-2, clamd daemon 0.88.2 > > I am using clamd with exim (exiscan) to scan emails. The other day the > systems became un- > responsive and would not accept input from the console. It was getting the > error "fork: Resource > temporarily unavailable (35)". > > The only reason I can find for this is the large number of defunct clamd > processes. I restart clamd > yesterday and I already have 622 > ...... > clamav 21062 10100 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21081 10100 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21209 10100 0 09:46 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21275 10100 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21444 10100 0 09:50 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21579 10100 0 09:52 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21714 10100 0 09:53 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21831 10100 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 21913 10100 1 09:56 ? 00:00:03 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 22024 10100 0 09:57 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> > clamav 22113 10100 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct>
I have another report of problems on alpha (unaligned traps) - do you see anything in kern.log? Can you debug this a bit (strace, gdb, etc)? > The only potential cause for this that I can find is the ScanArchive > directive in clamd.conf. I have > tried to comment it out but when I re-start clamav the log shows "Archive > support enabled" > > Is there something I can do to stop these zombie processes from growing (a > part from re-starting > clamd)? Is there some reason why the ScanArcive option is still enabled when > I have asked not > specified it? ScanArchive is one fo the default options, and in order to disable it, you need to add DisableDefaultScanOptions (I think I got the option right - check the man page), and then readd the defaults you do want. Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Keep emotionally active. Cater to your | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | favorite neurosis. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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