Virus scanning hanging?

[Scott Silva]

Gottschalk, David spake the following on 9/13/2007 8:50 AM:
> It appears that some of the MailScanner processes on one of my boxes are 
> hanging on Virus scanning.
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> ps –ef | grep –I mailscanner | grep dangerous
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> root      4259  4139 62 10:56 ?        00:29:07 MailScanner: dangerous 
> content scanning
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> root      4212  4139 61 10:56 ?        00:28:35 MailScanner: dangerous 
> content scanning
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> root      4140  4139 62 10:56 ?        00:29:03 MailScanner: dangerous 
> content scanning
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> Sep 13 10:56:06 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: MCP Checks: Starting
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> Sep 13 10:56:09 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: MCP Checks completed at 789370 
> bytes per second
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> Sep 13 10:56:10 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
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> sudo strace -p 4140
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> Process 4140 attached - interrupt to quit
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> Process 4140 detached
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> I’m running clamav 0.91.1/4264/Thu Sep 13 02:06:05 2007and bitdefender 
> BDC/Linux-Console v7.0 (build 2492) (i386) (Dec 11 2003 13:24:00).
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> Other mail is flowing fine. Any ideas?
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> Any ideas?
On a sidenote, I had a lot of problems with BitDefender 7.0. I found 7.1 and 
it was much better, until this week that is. I disabled it on a busy box until 
I can trace why it is slow. It always uses close to 100% CPU, but it used to 
be done in a few seconds. This week I had processes sticking around for 5 to 
10 minutes.

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You hope everybody uses it, and
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