Re: Clamav (was Re: Apache2 Still Dying (Solved!))
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:21 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > >
> > > 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
>
My mail machine has 512MB. The one where Apache would stop serving
pages, and where I removed php5-clamav, has 1GB.
--
Raquel
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