Scott Ryan wanted us to know:

>I am having a slight problem which appears to have stemmed from swapping from 
>tcp sockets to unix sockets. Every now and again, and across 5 identical 
>servers, i get a huge number of clamdscan processes, which prevents qmail 
>accepting smtp connections. I made the total random assumption that clamav 
>has a problem tearing down unix sockets under load.
>However, I would like to be able to prove this so I am looking for someone to 
>give some pointer as to where to start looking. 
>I would like to use unix sockets as I understand that there is not as much 
>overhead compared to tcp sockets, but this issue is causing me a bit of 
>problem.

How many threads do you have set in clamd.conf?
-- 
Regards...              Todd
  We should not be building surveillance technology into standards.
  Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy.  Where it is easy, 
  it's called a police state.             -- Jeff Schiller on NANOG
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