Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 29 June 2009 19:44:49 Steve wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Looks like you have 200 processes sitting there blocking I/O. Is there > > anything related in the logs? > > Not sure - as I'm not sure where to look, or what to look for. > > > Your best bet is to examine emerge.log (better st

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve
Jarry wrote: Might be bug in clamd/spamassassin. But it could also be you are being mail-bombed (e.g. infinite depth of compressed-in-compressed attachements). I thought about that - but I can't find an offending email with a bogus attachment if I am. I recommend to include some limit for numbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve
Alan McKinnon wrote: Looks like you have 200 processes sitting there blocking I/O. Is there anything related in the logs? Not sure - as I'm not sure where to look, or what to look for. Your best bet is to examine emerge.log (better still - genlop) and find all recent upgrades that might affe

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Jarry
Steve wrote: $ ps auwx | grep clamscan | grep -v grep | wc -l 42 $ ps auwx | grep procmail | grep -v grep | wc -l 94 $ ps auwx | grep clamassassin | grep -v grep | wc -l 55 -- The first few lines from top say: -- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15451 usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 29 June 2009 19:04:44 Steve wrote: > Today my gentoo server that has sat happily churning my mundane (and > lightweight) tasks froze and I noticed when it stopped serving DNS > queries... and the server was even unresponsive from the command > prompt. I rebooted and was a bit taken a

[gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve
Today my gentoo server that has sat happily churning my mundane (and lightweight) tasks froze and I noticed when it stopped serving DNS queries... and the server was even unresponsive from the command prompt. I rebooted and was a bit taken aback at what I found. The server currently runs,