Thanks for you answer. It's the most usefull i got 'till today.
I will take a look at the tools you suguested...
The leak is from clamd...i checked 'top' and saw how it swallows all avialble memory until it is killed by kernel.
It is indeed the primary AV filter, and i thought of upgrading to 0.75 but since you said it suffers from the same problems (memory leaking) i will the the 'softlimit'.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Meni Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Nigel Horne wrote:
On Friday 10 Sep 2004 19:01, Meni Shapiro wrote:
hi guys,
I got clamd running on a rh9 machine with mimedefang & sendmail 8.12.8 (yes
i know...should upgrade to 8.13.x ....)
[snip]
"Sep 10 19:16:46 xxxx kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process xxxxx (clamd)."
[snip]
You should really look what CAUSED your system to be out of memory.How do i force mimedefang/sendmail to process the mails and NOT queue them?
Please ask on the mimedefang mailing list, not here.
Getting mail to pass thru on scanner errors is really just a workaround, and that too may fail
if the problem is "out of memory" or "out of disk space".
If you use clamd as promary scanner, like I do, and discover that clamd used up over 3 GB of memory, like I did,
then the only solution is to put memory limitation on clamd.
daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) has a series of programs, including
softlimit, which limits a program's memory usage, and service, which can automatically starts
a daemon if it gets killed.
I use the combination of service + softlimit, which ensures clamd is running and only using certain
amount of memory (64 M seems like a good choice here), and clamdwatch.pl to make sure clamd
is actually running (i.e not hung).
If you have another primary scanner (clamd is your backup), then you should stick to it for now.
Clamd works great for lots of people, but some have reported memory leaks on latest stable (0.75.1),
which could cause your system to be "out of memory".
Regards,
Fajar
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