ClamAV + MailScanner

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Thu Mar 18 21:16:57 GMT 2004


Hi!

> First I ran MS with just ClamAV as the antivirus scanner, and then
> ClamAVmodule as the only scanner.
>
> It took MS 9 minutes to process 1500 messages from the inqueue with ClamAV,
> and it then took MS 13 minutes to process another 1500 messages with
> ClamAVmodule.
>
> I reproduced this a few times, so I would state that ClamAV is faster than
> its perl module scanner.

What ClamAV version are you running, are you scanning in tmpfs? And whats
the message batch size you are using? I have also been testing and in my
case the lib scanner was faster actually.

Bye,
Raymond.



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