From: Per-Olov Sjöholm (posincedo.org)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 03:11:02 CST

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On Tuesday 02 November 2004 04.56, Adam wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:22:30PM -0600, Kevin wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:53:32 +0800, Lars Hansson <larsunet.net.ph> wrote:
> > > Adam wrote:
> > > > This would definately lead me to believe you don't know what high
> > > > volume mail is. ClamAV is also not stable on OpenBSD under heavy
> > > > mail loads,
> >
> > Please tell us what you mean by "high volume" mail. 20K? 200K? 2M?
>
> Per what? I don't know what it did per day, probably not too much. It
> was 20k per hour during peak times though. And every couple of days
> it would segfault, always during peak hours like first thing in the
> morning when everyone was replying to all their mail.
>
> > What are you using to interface SMTP to clamd? milter?
>
> Milter.
>
> > > Maybe you define heavy differently but I've put 20k+ mails/day
> > > thru clamd for more than a year and it has not once caused any
> > > problems. Of course, I run it supervised so it might have crashed now
> > > and then but it has not *ever* hung.
> >
> > Same experience here.
> > I run 'clamd' supervised and systrace'd, and while clamd consumes
> > quite a bit of memory, I have yet to see it hang. Usually 'clamd'
> > runs until I upgrade ClamAV (the engine, not the signatures, freshclam
> > gets those once a day)
>
> Clamd itself, and the milter would both occasionally crash. I am not
> the only person to have seen this, in fact if you search the archives,
> you should find a patch someone worked on to clean up some of the mess
> in the clamav code to make it more stable. It may or may not have been
> fixed since I last used it however, as they did seem to release new
> version fairly often. Last I used was 0.74, and all the 0.7x versions
> had this problem, much worse in the earlier versions.
>
> Adam

I use smtp-vilter from www.etc.msys.ch with my clamd installations.... There
we have the first difference... And one of the 0.75 versions have ran at a
heavy site for long now with loads of 10-20 mails/sec. This gives 864000
mails /day minimum. Is this a high volume ? And it's ran on OpenBSD 3.4.

/Per-Olov

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