High ClamScan ...

[Julian Field]

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Use the clamavmodule or clamd scanners instead.
You can install the clamavmodule as part of my ClamAV+SA easy-to-install 
package available from www.mailscanner.info.
Or else get the clamd RPM from dag.wieers.com, start it up and tell 
MailScanner to use the clamd scanner.

Rob Poe wrote:
> >From Top
>
> 30174 clam      25   0 26352  25M  1100 R    25.9  1.0   0:07   0 clamscan
> 30142 clam      25   0 27044  26M  1100 R    25.5  1.0   0:19   0 clamscan
> 30387 clam      25   0 13936  13M  1096 R    21.1  0.5   0:01   0 clamscan
> 30128 clam      25   0 27488  26M  1100 R    19.9  1.0   0:30   0 clamscan
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> load average: 6.86, 4.74, 3.31
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> Centos 3.x, Dual Xeon 2.8 /w 2.5 gigs of ram/HP Proliand DL380G3 /w hardware RAID 1 (SCSI 10k drives)
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> What gives?
>
> Is there a better way to do this?  Seems that clamscan is tooo freaking slow any more..
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> Another box: 
> 16842 clam      25   0 18260  13m 1204 R   99  0.6   0:29.65 clamscan                                                               
> 17024 clam      25   0 12100 6696 1204 R   92  0.3   0:06.72 clamscan                                                               
> 16884 clam      25   0 19416  12m 1204 R   72  0.6   0:23.79 clamscan                                                               
> 17050 clam      25   0  6808 2276 1044 R   54  0.1   0:01.95 clamscan  
> load average: 5.01, 3.86, 3.43
> Centos 4.x, dual 2.8 xeon, 2g ram, dual SATA on a 3Ware controller
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> These aren't slow boxes ..  but Clam is killing them..
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Jules

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