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Title: CLAMD using 100% CPU
Post by: edb on January 21, 2017, 04:54:25 AM

Noticed that my test SME server 10 test server is using 100% CPU by clamd?
Is there a solution for this problem?
I tried stopping clamd and that solves it but a reboot and it is back to 100% cpu usage again.
thanks

-edb

Title: Re: CLAMD using 100% CPU
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on January 21, 2017, 06:10:00 AM

Hi,
this should be reported to bugzilla. https://bugs.contribs.org

Please dig some relevant logs  from the situation so we can investigate.

Title: Re: CLAMD using 100% CPU
Post by: edb on March 24, 2017, 09:45:47 PM

Ok after some searching I seem to have found the resolve for this issue on my server.
It appears to have been a permissions issue on the var/clamav folder.

The default install apparently had the permissions on var/clamav as follows:
Group: input [395]
Owner: saslauth [397]

I had to change this to:
Group: clamav [499]
Owner: clamav [499]

Once I changed the permissions and did a

Code: [Select]

freshclam - update virus databases then everything updated fine and the high CPU usage disappeared.
Problem solved!

-edb

Title: Re: CLAMD using 100% CPU
Post by: georgios on May 23, 2017, 01:53:53 PM

Quote from: edb on January 21, 2017, 04:54:25 AM

Noticed that my test SME server 10 test server is using 100% CPU by clamd?
Is there a solution for this problem?
I tried stopping clamd and that solves it but a reboot and it is back to 100% cpu usage again.
thanks

-edb

Hi, I dont know if it will help you :

One time I spent one weekend to see why my SME Server was 75% to 100% for 2 days every 30 minutes (CPU used from Sme9Admin).
After checking the logs, I found that one of our user was sending to a university group a news with file attached. And because all the university had a big email problem they were answering us that the message could not be delivered with all the file attached !

in 1 day, our user had +3 giga in his mailbox.

The fact was that there email server was sending us back our mail +100 times in the same time...then CLAMD was scanning the mail and that's why the processus was so ++ HIGH.

did you have checked the logs of your incoming emails?

Title: Re: CLAMD using 100% CPU
Post by: Stefano on May 24, 2017, 10:46:39 AM

Quote from: edb on March 24, 2017, 09:45:47 PM

Ok after some searching I seem to have found the resolve for this issue on my server.
It appears to have been a permissions issue on the var/clamav folder.

The default install apparently had the permissions on var/clamav as follows:
Group: input [395]
Owner: saslauth [397]

I had to change this to:
Group: clamav [499]
Owner: clamav [499]

Once I changed the permissions and did a

Code: [Select]

freshclam - update virus databases then everything updated fine and the high CPU usage disappeared.
Problem solved!

-edb

please, report this in Bugzilla, thank you