[vPostMaster] warning: problem talking to server private/vpm-pfpolicy

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Craig Isdahl wrote:

>
> I'm at a loss as to what's causing this error (see log file info  
> below); my
> initial thought is just plain lack of system resources but:
>
> ~]# free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers      
> cached
> Mem:       1033940     593684     440256          0      32040      
> 252252
> -/+ buffers/cache:     309392     724548
> Swap:      2104496        280    2104216
>
> ~]# uptime
> 14:47:31 up  3:24,  1 user,  load average: 0.47, 1.93, 2.91
>
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

I had a somewhat similar problem, though I wasn't getting your  
specific error messages, I was getting occasional timeouts from vpm- 
vfpolicy.

There were several problems, but the major one turned out to be that I  
was running an older version of clamav which apparently had some bugs  
- scans were taking 10 minutes or more and once each CPU was busy  
running clamscan the system was pretty well hosed.

I'd make sure you are running the latest version of clamav. Have a  
look at top's output and see what resources and for how long your CPU  
is being utilized. If you see clamscan taking many minutes that may  
well be your problem.

Your problem may well be something totally different, but I thought  
I'd pass along my experience.

beww