bdc replacement

[Dhawal Doshy]

Scott Silva writes: 

> Glenn Steen spake the following on 4/10/2006 11:43 AM:
>> On 10/04/06, Dhawal Doshy <dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com> wrote:
>>> Hello List, 
>>>
>>> BDC has lately become a cpu hog (or maybe i discovered recently). Am
>> 
>> Really? How bad is it? Could you perhaps describe your setup a bit,
>> and perhaps some volume figures....? 
>> 
>>> wondering if there are any other alternatives in the command line virus
>>> scanning world that are free (as in beer) OR relatively cheap and
>>> consume much less resources. 
>>>
>>> I've been using clamav and uvscan for quite some time (qmail-scanner
>>> days) and am more / less happy with their performance.. so any other
>>> suggestions would be welcome. 
>>>
>>> Also a couple of questions for Julian: 
>>>
>>> 1. Shouldn't "LogFile=/tmp/log.bdc.$$" in bitdefender-wrapper point to
>>> something like /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/log.bdc.$$ and take
>>> advantage of the tmpfs partition? 
>>>
>>> 2. Also i don't see any options being used in the bitdefender-wrapper
>>> script (similar to ExtraOptions in clamav-wrapper). Any particular
>>> reason why? Is it because MailScanner handles all the unpacking of
>>> attachments? 
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> - dhawal
>> 
>> Well, there are some that are free for private/home/non-commercial use
>> .... like Antivir (or avira or whatever they like to be called....
>> http://www.free-av.com), AVG etc... (Avast is too, if you'd like to
>> try your hand at writing a wrapper (I don't think it is included in
>> the "supported set":-)). Panda isn't free, even though they say so,
>> since you need to pay for updates, and besides.... It's not that well
>> come together (although Ricks "new" wrapper makes it somewhat less of
>> a hog), so I wouldn't recommend that one ... But it is cheap, one has
>> to give it that... If one were a bit sarcastic, one might say it is
>> cheap in every sense of the word;). 
>> 
>> If I'd look at anything new, it'd probably be ine if the four: AVG,
>> Sophos, F-secure or F-prot.... with possibly nod32 as a remote
>> outsider:-). 
>> 
>> Anyway, I've been happy with the same setup you've got (clam, bdc and
>> mcafee), so would realy be interrested to hear what numbers you can
>> present.
>> Cheers
> I run the same 3 and haven't seen any performance problems. Are you running
> the gcc3x version, or do you still have the older (i think gcc29x) version?
> The older one isn't even offered on their website, although I have them somewhere.

Hey guys.. thanks for your replies.. it really isn't as bad as i've 
projected but then the average cpu usage is 40% and bdc is responsible for 
most of it. What i am worried about is the constant/consistent 35-40% usage. 

All systems are:
Dell PE1850, Dual Xeons 2.8 Ghz (with HT enabled), 3GB RAM, 10K RPM SCSI 
Disks Running 32bit centos 4.3 with the following: 

MS 4.50.10/postfix 2.2.5
SA 3.11/pyzor/razor/dcc
uvscan v4.4.00/bdc 7.0.1-3.linux-gcc3x.i586/clam 0.88.1 

The servers process about 70-80K mails each + lot more rejections at the mta 
level. 

 - dhawal 


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