Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow

Jens Ahlin mailing_lists+mailscanner at caleotech.com
Thu Apr 19 10:04:57 IST 2007


> Hi,
>
> Upgraded clamav from 0.90.1 to 0.90.2 this morning. Since then scanning
> takes like forever and the mailqueue grows fast.
>
> in 'top' i can see that clamscan hogs the cpu for atleast 30-45 seconds
> while scanning, even if it's a mail with no attachment:
>
> Apr 19 10:36:15 antispam MailScanner[16598]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 30520 bytes
> Apr 19 10:36:15 antispam MailScanner[16598]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Apr 19 10:36:15 antispam MailScanner[16598]: Expired 10 records from the
> SpamAssassin cache
> Apr 19 10:36:20 antispam MailScanner[16598]: Spam Checks completed at
> 6455 bytes per second
> Apr 19 10:36:20 antispam MailScanner[16598]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Apr 19 10:37:23 antispam MailScanner[16598]: Virus Scanning completed at
> 483 bytes per second
>
>
>
> I had no problem with 0.90.1.
>
> Anyone seeing the same problem?
>
> I'm using Debian Sarge and apt for upgrading
>
> Thank you
>
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Hi,

I see the same thing on 3 servers. I might revert back to 0.90.1... or
hope that a fix is released soon. I'm using Dag Wieers repository for
clamav.

      Jens


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