clamd CPU problems?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,

Ah, thank you!  Cleaning house and rerunning the update gave:

ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 24 14:07:11 2007
Downloading main.cvd [100%]
main.cvd updated (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven)
WARNING: Removing corrupted incremental directory daily.inc
Downloading daily.cvd [100%]
daily.cvd updated (version: 4590, sigs: 28009, f-level: 21, builder: sven)
Database updated (161172 signatures) from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 128.121.60.235)

So something was corrupted.  Off and running again.  Thanks.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, UxBoD wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:54:58 +0100 (BST)
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> Subject: Re: clamd CPU problems?
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> are you using any other signatures with Clam ? Have you tried clearing the main and daily directories and letting clam pull the signatures down again ?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at colby.edu>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:58:58 PM (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: clamd CPU problems?
>
> Gang,
>
> I've noticed in the last couple of days that the load has
> shot up on my mailscanner system for extended periods, and
> clamd is the process sucking down the CPU cycles.  If I stop
> mailscanner and clamd, and then restart both, the load goes
> back to normal.  I've seen this in the syslogs during these
> periods:
>
> Oct 24 11:31:16 localhost MailScanner[29416]: Commercial scanner clamd timed out!
> Oct 24 11:31:16 localhost MailScanner[29416]: clamd: Failed to complete, timed out
>
> My Setup: Solaris 10, clamav-0.91.2, dcc-1.3.66, MailScanner
> 4.64.3-2, sophos-av 4.21.
>
> Anybody else seeing this?  I wonder if there is some bad AV
> signature that has been added in the last couple of days...
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
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