Jerry Lee wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Thank you for your suggestion. I've increased the softlimit to 600MB, > and it was working for about 20 minutes, then it fails again. I notice > that when clamd fails, it has the following error messages > > Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:28:41 EST:30311: --output of clamdscan was: > connect(): Connection refused > WARNING: Can't connect to clamd. > > I would have to restart clamd for it to work. After the restart, it will > work for about a few minutes, then it will fail again. I am not sure > what to do at this point. It doesn't make sense to increase to softlimit > to 1GB or even higher. Any ideas. Please help. >
How many mails are you handling per second? What is their average size? How many threads did clamd have when it reached the softlimit? Also, are you sure it is clamd using up that much memory and not qmail-scanner? (Did you try the ps command from the previous mail on this thread?) --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
