Clamav load

[Rick Cooper]

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of emm1
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:54 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Clamav load
> 
> 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?
> 

Don't use clamscan. I believe you will find that MailScanner version
supports the clamdscan version of clamd (which will actually user your
running clamd) and you should see a marked improvement is performance. Or
use ClamAVModule.

Rick


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