On Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:48, Todd Lyons shaped the electrons to say: > 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?
Ah. This could very well be the issue. I have threads set to 200, but it could be possible that I have more concurrent local and remote smtp connections. I will try to increase the number o threads to see if this helps any. -- +----------------------------------------------+ (0> Scott Ryan //\ Senior Unix/Linux Engineer V_/_ Telkom Internet - South Africa +----------------------------------------------+ He who controls the past, controls the future, He who controls the present, controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984 ================================================ _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
