Re: [exim] exim and clam going nuts

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim and clam going nuts
* On 27/06/06 19:21 +0200, John Oxley wrote:
| I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, exim 4.62 and clam 0.88.2 on a P4 2.8
| with a gig of ram.


I run the same versions on a FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE so we're pretty close.

| What started happening today is clam would suddenly start using 50% of
| the processor. Doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh stop sits
| and waits for the PID of clam to stop. When I did a kill -9 of clam's
| PID, the machine went completely bananas and very unresponsive:
| # w
|
| 6:08PM up 4:49, 3 users, load averages: 605.85, 749.77, 573.68
|
| On killing exim by doing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh stop then killall
| -9 exim-4.62-0 restores the machine to normal.
|
| I started exim and clam again, and after a couple of hours, the same
| thing happened. I can't find anything in either exim logs or clam logs
| slightly out of the ordinary.
|
| This machine has been running with no hickups for months. Has anyone
| else had even vaguely similar problems?


I'd beg to see your clamd.conf and the sections of Exim's
configuration where you push the e-mails to be scanned by clamd. That
way I can make more informed decisions than guesses.

I am not experiencing any problem at all though

        cheers
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