Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Fri Apr 27 09:13:33 IST 2007


Also worth noting is that people who've have installed 0.90.2 buy hand
don't seem to be having the trouble. I had to compile without the
pthread support as my O/S doesn't support them and I have no speed
issues. Maybe this suddent pthreads implementation in clamav is the
cause???

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Martin Hepworth
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> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of DAve
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> Subject: Re: Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow
>
> Richard Lynch wrote:
> > Julian Field wrote:
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> >> What's wrong with just using clamavmodule? You need to use
> >> Mail::ClamAV 0.20 with ClamAV 0.90 and later, which is all included
in
> >> my ClamAV+SA package.
> >>
> >> I don't understand the sudden rush to clamd at all. Can someone
> >> explain to me please?
> >>
> >> Jules.
> >>
> > The only advantage I see is that it's all maintained by a single
> > source.  That is, the ClamAV team maintains clamd and clamdscan
> > together.  There's no third party perl package that may not be up to
> > date.  I don't know if there's a performance improvement one way or
the
> > other.  It's conceivable that clamdscan/clamd performs better in a
> > multiprocessor environment by spreading the load across other
> > processors.  It's just as possible that the overhead of the
> > communications between the two costs too much to justify doing it
that
> way.
> >
> > I would probably suggest that clamdscan/clamd always be used instead
of
> > just clamscan.  From what I've seen using clamscan alone is the
worst
> > possible case performance wise.
> >
> > Rich
>
> I can't disagree with that but I can say performance is not
unreasonable
> using clamscan. Messages for us take from 2 to 6 seconds to process in
> batches from 1 to 4 messages. We stop most of our messages long before
> they ever hit AV scanning. Not using clamdscan or clamavmodule leaves
us
> with one less process to monitor on our MS servers, and
changes/updates
> made by the ClamAV team have never adversely affected us (so far...).
>
> We may move up to clamdscan or clamavmodule in the near future when we
> upgrade the MS servers, but right now I can see no compelling reason
to
> do so. I tend to always favor stability over performance, and I abhor
> surprises on Monday mornings. Call me a Luddite, but new ain't always
> better.
>
> Also, it's not like we don't process a few connections either, here
are
> a single days stats for one of our servers.
>
> Rejected by Greylisting       196,047
> Blocked for Pipelining         11,072
> Blocked for RFC                18,528
> Blocked for RBL                94,857
> Blocked for Bad Sender          2,746
> Blocked for No Account         12,000
> Found Spam Message             18,778
> Messages Delivered             33,840
>
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>
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