Re: [vps-mail] Clamav problem

[Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JO> I had a process which has been causing all kinds of grief, you can see by
JO> the time, wcpu, cpu . .

I had a similar problem with Clamav - what caused it was an
email loop. An email with a large attachment was being
forwarded off server and then bounced back, then
reforwarded, etc. Clamav was repeatedly rescanning the same
large email - & it ate up all the processes.

So here is what you do.

Kill clamav

Check your sendmail queue by running

% mailq

Look for a big email. If you find it,

% cd /var/spool/mqueue

Then delete the files associated with the problem email.

Then restart clamav

-Abigail



JO> Anyone have any ideas or have the same problems?


JO>   PID USERNAME      PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU
JO> COMMAND
JO> 13386 clamav         46   0  1608K   888K RUN     83:34 49.17% 49.17%
JO> freshclam

JO> ***********************************************

JO> And the problem process:

JO> joli /# ps -auxww | grep freshclam
JO> clamav 13386 48.3  0.0  1608  888  ??  Rs   Mon03PM  83:36.29
JO> /usr/local/bin/freshclam --pid=/var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid
JO> --daemon-notify=/usr/local/etc/clamav.conf --daemon


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