MS 4.55.9 not detecting Mail::ClamAV

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Oct 28 17:59:28 IST 2006


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TCIS List Acct wrote:
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> Julian Field wrote:
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>> I personally wouldn't recommend hundreds of messages per batch, the 
>> process sizes will get enormous. I would recommend clamavmodule as it 
>> avoids the startup cost of running the binary.
>
> FWIW we do 50 per batch and clamscan (tested both 0.88.4 and 0.88.5) 
> falls over under the load quite quickly, whereas f-prot on the same 
> box runs without a hiccup.
>
Define 'falls over'. Is it running out of memory? 50 per batch is quite 
large. How many CPU cores do you have and how much RAM, and how much swap?

Jules

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