From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Wed Apr 11 20:17:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: list@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D6AW-ugg526y; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:17:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tad.clamav.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099B216C13F; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:17:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nN4YqwyRfA-y for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:17:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.austinenergy.com (smtp.austinenergy.com [198.214.232.125]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3247B16C135 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:17:10 +0200 (CEST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C77C65.9E4EE326" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:12:20 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Clamav-users] error stops clamd Thread-Index: Acd8YOzdZgC10KXFRGGGVPMy4QWEEQABAUhr References: <461CBC94.3040607@gmx.net> <20070411174141.GA5757@adsl.nervous.it> From: "McDonald, Dan" To: "ClamAV users ML" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9 Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] error stops clamd X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C77C65.9E4EE326 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >From: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net on behalf of Luca Gibelli >Hello jacusy, >> this night my clamd-process terminated with an error. The reason was >> that freshclam took too long to do its update, so that clamd could = not >> lock the database. So clamd exited. But this behaviour is very fatal >> because the mail system (postfix with amavis) relys on clamd, so if = it >> is down, the whole mail traffic is blocked!! Caused of an error while >> updating...... > >amavisd-new falls back to clamscan by default, if clamd is not = available. Right, but my system is sized for operation with clamd. When clamd = stops, the memory utilization goes through the roof and the machine = basically stops because it is spending 80-90% of the cpu time in IOWAIT, = trying to swap out enough ram to load the whole clamav database for = every message... And mail backs up... At least it doesn't drop any mail. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C77C65.9E4EE326 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html ------_=_NextPart_001_01C77C65.9E4EE326--