I am having the same exact problem and am using F-prot... Rebooting usaully only solves the problem for a short amount of time. eventually it will do it again and everything on the server will come to a crawl. till I start killing processes or reboot. Although it will sometimes go a couple days with out a problem.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Friggstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:14 PM Subject: [xmail] RE: [xmail] Anti Virus Filter - log entry question > Hi Phil: > > I've been getting similar error messages on our Linux XMail box with AV > Filter - "Filter error (-5)". In our case, when the filter fails, it starts > using CPU cycles at an incredible rate, like it's stuck in an infinite loop > or something. When enough of these filters fail (in our case, a couple > dozen), the server becomes extremely unresponsive, to the point where it > takes nearly 20 minutes to me to SSH in, start top, and kill all the hung > filter processes. (Yes, it would probably be easier to just hit the reset > button, but this server is in a co-lo facility 100 km away, and I like > uptime stats :-) ) > > Our system: > XMail 1.17 (built from source, stock) > RedHat Linux 9.0 (upgraded from RHL 7.3, plus additional updates from RHN) > F-Prot antivirus 4.3.1 for Linux (installed from RPM) > AV Filter 1.8 > > There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the failures on our system - > sometimes the system will run fine for 24 hours or more without any hanging > filters, and then suddenly 3 or 4 of them will hang within the span of 10 > seconds. We do not have any other filters running on XMail. > > I have no idea if the problem lies in XMail, in Peter's filter, or possibly > even in F-Prot (gotta love debugging processes involving multiple programs > and vendors). Anyone else out there having a similar problem? Phil, what > anti-virus are you using with AV Filter? > > Thanks to all. > > Kirk. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philipp Ringli > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [xmail] Anti Virus Filter - log entry question > > > hi all, > > i seem to have some problems with the Anti Virus Filter 1.8 > (http://www.lindeman.org/filters.html). > > my MDK 9.2 box went black. i mean, i had to press the reset button. > could this have caused it? > > maybe someone has a clue on these log entries? (/var/log/messages): > > Dec 2 19:55:26 ns1 XMail[2680]: Filter error (-5): Sender = > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Recipient = > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Filter = > "/var/MailRoot/filters/checkvirus.pl" > Dec 2 19:55:32 ns1 CROND[10009]: (root) CMD ( > /usr/share/sshd-monitor/sshd-restarter) > Dec 2 19:59:04 ns1 XMail[2680]: Filter error (-5): Sender = > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Recipient = > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Filter = "/var/MailRoot/bin/sa_filter.pl" > Dec 2 20:01:30 ns1 CROND[10025]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts > /etc/cron.hourly) > > cheers, > phil > ---------------------------- > sichtwerk gmbh > http://www.sichtwerk.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
