Clamav load

[Martin.Hepworth]

Hi

In MailScanner.conf edit the virus Scanners line and make sure it's
clamd rather than auto or anything..

BTW this means of course you're running clamd in the first place!

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of emm1
> Sent: 06 June 2007 13:46
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Clamav load
>
> Howto turn off clamscan and use clamd instead?
>
> On 6/6/07, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 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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