Clamav load

[emm1]

Howto turn off clamscan and use clamd instead?

On 6/6/07, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
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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
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> > 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?
> >
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> 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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