On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:49:54AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:36:46 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:16:49AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:56:45 -0800 > > > Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. > > > > > > > > I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. > > > > > > > > I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. > > > > > > > > Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere > > > > from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I cannot find a reason in any of > > > > the server logs, messages or syslog. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Raquel > > > > > > At least I think it's solved! The server has been serving pages > > > for 24 hours now and doesn't seem to be slowing. I'm so happy. > > > Maybe this horrible headache I've had for the past week will > > > finally abate. > > > > > > The culprit? php5-clamav > > > > > > I removed the php5-clamav module and everyone seems happy! > > > > Were you actually using php5-clamav or was it just randomly on? > > I"m always curious about clamav stuff as its the weak link in my > > mail system. Its so large that it maxes out my mail server's > > memory and causes swapping which will cause clamav to not respond > > in time... blah blah blah... paniclog entries. annoying. > > > > I use clamav on all my servers and haven't noticed a huge load like > you're describing. Of course, I may not get as much mail as you do > either. I have it set so that it checks all incoming mail and it > also checks the file system every so often. > > php5-clamav is supposed to scan any files uploaded via a php script. > Somewhere (I wasn't able to determine where) it was doing something > that stopped Apache from serving pages. > > I wonder why you're getting such a load from clamav? > its a memory issue. I've not got enough memory in that machine. Clamav gets a pretty big memory footprint and it ends up getting swapped out. When the machine is in the midst of cron jobs or other load generating/disk intensive stuff, it will timeout while waiting to swap back in. No biggie. just need to up the memory. A
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