Clamav load

[emm1]

Thanks, had to make some adjustments for it to work on FreeBSD. But
wow, what a difference in performance. Why isnt this used by default?
:)



On 6/6/07, Martin.Hepworth <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
> 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
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> > -----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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > > believed to be clean.
> > >
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