On Monday 04 June 2007 03:23, Rob Sterenborg wrote: > >> Yes I'm aware of that. But.. clamdscan was as "slow" as clamscan as > >> clamavmodule. > > > > I would suggest that you either use clamdscan or clamavmodule. The > > time required for clamscan to load virus signatures (100 thousand or > > so) is enough (20-something seconds on my system) to justify the > > choice. > > Yes, I was just trying to say that it didn't matter which method I > chose; all of them would timeout after a short time. > > >> I don't understand why it wasn't working when I *completely* > >> (personally checked) remove the package (using apt-get and dpkg) and > >> reinstall it, but I'm not going to complain: this was my excuse to > >> install the latest version from source. > > > > It would probably be helpful if you also check which part of > > your system is heavily-loaded at that time. e.g. Does clamd consume > > 100% CPU usage, or disk I/O is very heavy, etc. > > I'm afraid I can't check that anymore. We have 2 mailservers that had > the same problem and CPU and disk load stays at a nice level now on > both.
I have had the clam problem twice in about two month. (nod a Debian, not a Kolab native install but a one year old Mandriva. It must be a clam problem. I solved it both times by deleting the signature files and do a freshclam. > > IMO this was not a performance issue. These boxes have 2 dualcore 3GHz > CPU's and 2GB RAM, running on hardware mirrored disks and emails being > processed reside in tmpfs. At this point we do not receive that much > email, compared to the boxes we have running (but that *will* grow in > the future). > > I think the issue was that we experienced a power outage which caused > the UPS-es to work beautifully but not the airco's (I still curse the > man who designed this) which let the temp rise to above 50C in the room. > Servers went down, files got -apparently- corrupted. > Now, if I then remove an installation and reinstall it (be it from > package), I would imagine it to work but it didn't. Also, it didn't give > any errors I could work with (except for timeouts). > > Thanks anyway for the response. > > > Grts, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
