>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Luca Gibelli
>Hello jacusy,

>> this night my clamd-process terminated with an error. The reason was
>> that freshclam took too long to do its update, so that clamd could not
>> lock the database. So clamd exited. But this behaviour is very fatal
>> because the mail system (postfix with amavis) relys on clamd, so if it
>> is down, the whole mail traffic is blocked!! Caused of an error while
>> updating......
>
>amavisd-new falls back to clamscan by default, if clamd is not available.

Right, but my system is sized for operation with clamd.  When clamd stops, the 
memory utilization goes through the roof and the machine basically stops 
because it is spending 80-90% of the cpu time in IOWAIT, trying to swap out 
enough ram to load the whole clamav database for every message...
And mail backs up... At least it doesn't drop any mail.
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