AV timeout?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Michael Scheidell <michael.scheidell at secnap.com>:
> On 6/29/11 3:36 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> >>but, if clamav hung on the primary (like it has done twice since
> >>>  upgrading to 0.97.1),
> >Ah, it's happening to you as well? Happened here twice or three times
> >already:(
> >
> >>>  amavisd just seems to sit there till I totally kill clamd with a
> >>>  sigsegv.
> >Yeah, same here.
> >
> freebsd? amd64?  what version of Freebsd?

Debian Linux Testing, i386!

> I posted to clamav list, and they gave me a POSSIBLE 'fat finger'
> that might be causing it.
> 
> I am going to try this below and see if it helps.
> 
> clamav also asked, that once it hangs, can we use this to generate a
> core file:
> 
> If you still have one of those hung 0.97.1 (or come across in the future) can you run
> $ gcore<pid>
> 
> This should generate a core file of the hung process that can be investigated later
> (as long as you still have the coresponding clamd and libclamav binaries too).

Ah wonderful

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