Clamav load

[Gareth]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:54, emm1 wrote:
> Hello, Im running the newest MailScanner from FreeBSD 6.2 ports,
> 4.60.8 and clamav 0.90.3 and I am experiencing very slow scan times
> and high loads.
> 
>  2240 root        1 107    0 39056K 36684K RUN      0:18 44.21% clamscan
>  2248 root        1 108    0 38272K 35900K RUN      0:07 31.08% clamscan
>  2256 root        1 108    0 11852K  9452K RUN      0:03 23.99% clamscan
>  2262 root        1 108    0 11752K  9352K RUN      0:03 20.87% clamscan
>   656 clamav      1   4    0 39480K 36996K accept   0:27  0.00% clamd
> 
> 
> As soon as I turn the virusscan off in MailScanner.conf everything is fine.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!

Turn off clamscan support and use either clamd or clamavmodule instead.
Clamscan loads the virus database every time it scans which is a lot
slower.