bdc and clamscan always high on top

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Mon Jun 5 21:28:00 IST 2006


Thanks, Glenn

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: bdc and clamscan always high on top


> 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.
>
> -- 
> -- Glenn
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