Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow

[Julian Field]

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Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> */Ed Bruce <edwardbruce at sbcglobal.net>/* wrote:
>
>     Julian Field wrote:
>     >
>     > Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
>     >> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Martin wrote:
>     >
>     >>> Arto wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> We had this too. Uninstalling clamav* and installing it again
>     helped.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> -arto
>     >>>>
>     >>> Thanks for all replies. Read about this issue on the
>     clamav-list and
>     >>> hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.
>     >> I have similar problems with clamav myself.
>     >
>     >> What I did that improved a little bit
>     >> was deleting the virus database in /var/lib/clamav/*
>     >> and running freshclam again.
>     >
>     >> Still is very slow. If you try clamscan -debug you will
>     >> find out why it is so damn slow....
>     >
>     >> Clamd works fast on the other hand.
>     >> Maybe it should be included officialy (clamdscan)
>     >> in MailScanner's the next version.
>     > Why? I already support the "clamavmodule" which is faster than
>     clamd anyway.
>     >
>     > Jules
>
>     And I haven't noticed any performance degradation with clamavmodule
>     since upgrading to 0.90.2.
>
> Pardon my ignorance Ed, but I'm unfamiliar with clamavmodule, I just 
> use the clamscan approach and have also experienced the load shoot up 
> since updating to 0.90.2.
>
> Are there any instructions on installing clamavmodule?
Install the easy-to-use ClamAV+SA package on www.mailscanner.info. Dead 
simple.
>
> If that fixes the load problem I'll be happy to do it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael.
>
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Jules

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