[clamav-users] 0.100.1 issues - allocation memory / pthread create failed

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018, Jamal Saleh wrote:

> ...
> Can't allocate memory ERROR
> ERROR: pthread_create failed
>
> Looking to get help on the aforementioned errors.  On version 0.99.2
> we had no issues but once we went to this version, we''ve processing
> outages and only a server restart / unload would resolve the issue.
> Any help would be appreciated, but the configs are basically default
> aside from the advanced logging values we have set.  The servers are
> never taxes nor does the traffic seem to peek when this occurs -
> happens at random times but every few days.
> ...

Your description sounds to me like the sypmtoms of a memory leak.  To
begin with I'd put something like this

* * * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/clamstats.log ; /usr/bin/top -b -n1 | /bin/grep clam >> /tmp/clamstats.log

in the crontab.  It's unclear to me if ClamAV is the problem or not,
and this at least ought to tell you something.

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73,
Ged.