Thanks for the tip, I found the issue, it was that clamav-daemon was running out of memory, crashing & serviced was indeed restarting it (only for it the crash again & so it went).
On 29 March 2017 at 00:58, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > On 28.03.17 22:33, Antonio Pavletich wrote: > >> Since upgrading I'm found clamd is spiking and staying put at 100%. >> >> I've deleted all files in /var/lib/clamav & re-ran freshclam only to have >> the same issue occur on the next inbound email? >> > > top - 11:07:58 up 3 days, 3:49, 2 users, load average: 2.96, 4.30, 2.19 >> > > note that some time after start, clamd loads, virus signatures from disk > unpacks them and builds in-memory databse, so it is expected to eat 100% of > CPU for a few minutes. > > logs spew out repeats of the below continuously? >> >> Tue Mar 28 11:20:19 2017 -> +++ Started at Tue Mar 28 11:20:19 2017 >> Tue Mar 28 11:20:19 2017 -> Received 1 file descriptor(s) from systemd. >> > > Tue Mar 28 11:20:27 2017 -> +++ Started at Tue Mar 28 11:20:27 2017 >> Tue Mar 28 11:20:27 2017 -> Received 1 file descriptor(s) from systemd. >> > > Tue Mar 28 11:20:33 2017 -> +++ Started at Tue Mar 28 11:20:33 2017 >> Tue Mar 28 11:20:33 2017 -> Received 1 file descriptor(s) from systemd. >> > > this looks like either the clamav process is crashing, or there is an error > related to how clamd is started from systemd, so systemd kills it and > starts > it repeatedly again and again... > > > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist > "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
