Thanks Mike. I did a little more digging on this after I posted my message, and found comments indicating the same thing. It appears ClamAV's virus definition files can cause this problem, as they grow (and other AV systems as well I guess).
I guess this means that eventually, our virus definition files will require all the memory on our computers, and/or we'll have to create specific network devices strictly for storing these files. (thinking things through to the absolute extremes, though it might be unrealistic - <grins>) Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Roest Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:25 AM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Qmail Problem and Solution Shawn wrote: > Hi gang. > > So I guess the only real question left is why did my box suddenly exceed this > setting, even though nothing had changed? No new software was added, no new > updates (though there were a few unrelated updates last week). I'm not sure > I totally understand the SOFTLIMIT_OPTS setting (which I think is used to set > a ulimit for the qmail process?), so maybe the answer is very clear with that > background knowledge. Anyone have any suggestions? The thing that I would suspect is a virus defs update in clam pushed it's memory foot print above what softlimit was set too. This has happend to me a couple times with sophos. A new virusdefs update will bump the memroy footprint by just enough to push it outside of the softlimit. -- Mike Site: http://www.blahz.org/ GPG Key: http://www.blahz.org/gpg.asc Internet! Is that thing still around? --Homer Simpson _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
