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

[Craig Isdahl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Wood [mailto:beww at beww.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:05 PM
> To: Craig Isdahl; vpostmaster at lists.tummy.com
> Subject: Re: [vPostMaster] warning: problem talking to server private/vpm-
> pfpolicy
> 
> 
> 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

Thanks for the input but we are running the latest stable - version info
below. - Craig

~]# rpm -qa | grep clam
clamav-db-0.92-1
clamav-0.92-1