Timeouts

[Michael Forrest]

root 22786 22768 66 15:46:26 ?       23:49 /opt/sophos/bin/sweep
-p=/tmp/outputlog -sc -f -all -rec -ss -archive -loopback

Total CPU time is 23:49

This was a 800k file that expands out to 800MB, my tmp space on the mail
server is only 600MB. So it fills it up and then sits and does nothing...the
tmp space sits at 99%

The total cpu time above, seems well in excess of the timeout settings in
the mailscanner.conf file?

Any suggestions?

Michael.


> At 23:36 01/10/2001, you wrote:
>> Just ran a test of the new timeouts, a 600k file that expands out into a few
>> hundred megabytes. The "Commerical scanner timed out!" message appeared in
>> the syslog after 5mins, although the sweep process is still thrashing away
>> on the same message? (its been going now for 26mins on the one file, and the
>> mail queue is at a complete stand still and growing by the second with other
>> mail hotfooting it into the queue).
>
> I have just tried this on a Solaris 8 system and the timeouts worked
> nicely. It did scan the same thing 3 times (once as part of batch scan,
> next as part of individual message scan, third time to attempt
> disinfection), but that's as expected.
>
> If you do:
>        while :
>        do
>          ps -fe | grep sweep
>        done
> and watch the total CPU time of the sweep processes, do they ever exceed
> the value set in the timeout setting in the mailscanner.conf file?
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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>