On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:21 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:49:54AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:36:46 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Were you actually using php5-clamav or was it just randomly > > > on? I"m always curious about clamav stuff as its the weak link > > > in my mail system. Its so large that it maxes out my mail > > > server's memory and causes swapping which will cause clamav to > > > not respond in time... blah blah blah... paniclog entries. > > > annoying. > > > > > > > I use clamav on all my servers and haven't noticed a huge load > > like you're describing. Of course, I may not get as much mail > > as you do either. I have it set so that it checks all incoming > > mail and it also checks the file system every so often. > > > > php5-clamav is supposed to scan any files uploaded via a php > > script. > > Somewhere (I wasn't able to determine where) it was doing > > something > > that stopped Apache from serving pages. > > > > I wonder why you're getting such a load from clamav? > > > > its a memory issue. I've not got enough memory in that machine. > Clamav gets a pretty big memory footprint and it ends up getting > swapped out. When the machine is in the midst of cron jobs or > other load generating/disk intensive stuff, it will timeout while > waiting to swap back in. No biggie. just need to up the memory. > > A > My mail machine has 512MB. The one where Apache would stop serving pages, and where I removed php5-clamav, has 1GB. -- Raquel ============================================================ As long as I have any choice in the matter, I will live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of ALL citizens before the law are the rule. --Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
