bdc and clamscan always high on top

[Glenn Steen]

On 05/06/06, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Hepworth" <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
> To: "'MailScanner discussion'" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:48 AM
> Subject: RE: bdc and clamscan always high on top
>
>
> > Steve
> >
> > How many of these 40k emails are for valid users????
>
> Not very many. Sendmail kicks most of them out. I guess a milter (ahead, or
> something) would work here. But the problem is not really how many, but is
> the bdc/clamscan high CPU normal?

You are not the first to report that BDC is a bit heavy on the CPU....
and if you run both as command-line tools (as if you have any choice
with BDC:-), and have a fair amount of incoming traffic, then the
fork/exec/read virus defs/etc overhead will begin to tell. If you
don't already, run clamavmodule instead of clamav... Will likely solve
it for clamav, at least.

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-- Glenn
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