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Freshclam Zombies

Offline Blackbox

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Freshclam Zombies
« on: July 30, 2008, 01:53:24 PM »
Hi everyone,
I am running SME server 7.3 on an Intel Pentium 4 with 1Gb of Ram.

This morning I noticed 3 Zombie processes of freshclam. I tried to remove them using kill -9 but I could not manage. I decided to reboot the server and all worked fine for the first 2 hours or so.

However, after 3 hours, the first zombie came up again.

[root@mailer ~]# top
top - 13:52:37 up  3:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 157 total,   1 running, 155 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.2% us,  0.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034312k total,   312720k used,   721592k free,    21580k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   143000k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI %CPU    TIME+  %MEM  VIRT  RES  SHR S COMMAND
 8645 root      16   0    0   0:00.75  0.1  2148 1056  788 R top
 8611 root      15   0    0   0:00.01  0.1  4724 1428 1140 S bash
 8606 root      16   0    0   0:00.03  0.2  8748 2264 1824 S sshd
 8569 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3780 1708 S httpd
 8568 admin     15   0    0   0:00.00  0.2  8876 2220 1260 S httpd-admin
 8559 admin     15   0    0   0:00.00  0.2  8876 2228 1268 S httpd-admin
 8504 root      19   0    0   0:00.00  0.0  2068  416  360 S mingetty
 7070 clamav    17   0    0   0:00.00  0.0     0    0    0 Z freshclam <defunct>
 3992 root      17   0    0   0:00.00  0.1  8252 1452 1168 S afpd
 3988 root      16   0    0   0:00.00  0.1  2832  640  528 S cnid_metad
 3984 root      19   0    0   0:00.00  0.0  3428  348  252 S papd
 3732 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3784 1708 S httpd
 3731 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3788 1708 S httpd
 3730 www       15   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3784 1708 S httpd
 3729 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3780 1708 S httpd
 3728 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3780 1708 S httpd
 3727 www       16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4 19428 3784 1708 S httpd

Is there a way I can troubleshoot the problem and see why this process is hanging?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance
« Last Edit: July 30, 2008, 01:57:25 PM by Blackbox »
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Offline CharlieBrady

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Re: Freshclam Zombies
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2008, 04:05:17 PM »
This morning I noticed 3 Zombie processes of freshclam.

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