Long Child Startup Times

[Julian Field]

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I'll put a tenner on the fact that you are running the latest version of 
ClamAV and are using the clamavmodule scanner.
It's ClamAV's fault in that case. The current version takes *forever* to 
load the signatures. Fortunately it only has to do this once in each child.
You can fix it by either
1) Download and run the latest release candidate of ClamAV which 
apparently has fixed it. This is the most common solution I have seen.
2) Wait for the new version of ClamAV and not worry about it for now. It 
only affects the startup time of each child, not the actual processing 
speed of ClamAV. This is what I have done.
3) Switch to clamd but make sure you are running something to keep an 
eye on the clamd daemon in case it crashes (I cannot guarantee clamd's 
stability).

Jules.

Darren Benfer wrote:
> Lately it seems like it takes MS children take forever to start up for 
> some reason, and my server load climbs to 4-5 while they are doing so. 
> Anyone else experiencing (or experienced) this? Anything I should 
> check into for a fix? Worked well for about year, but latest update 
> for MS started this trend.
>
> TIA!
> Darren @ Serversphere.com

Jules

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