[Mimedefang] BitDefender load average woes

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Wed Apr 19 15:19:16 EDT 2006


Matthew van Eerde wrote:
> I'm running BitDefender and ClamAV virus scanners through MIMEDefang.
> 
> All of a sudden BitDefender started consuming a huge amount of CPU. 
> My load average shot up from under 1 to between 6 and 15. 
> 
> This happened on two servers simultaneously.
> 
> I disabled BitDefender (delete $Features{"Virus:BDC"}) and the
> problems went away. 

Never mind, false alarm... problem was due to router being saturated by an unrelated process, not due to BitDefender at all.

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Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com               805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com       Software Engineer




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