High ClamScan ...

[Randal, Phil]

You should switch to ClamAVModule or the latest beta of MailScanner with
clamd support instead.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Rob Poe
> Sent: 11 June 2007 20:39
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: High ClamScan ...
> 
> >From Top
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> 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
> 
> load average: 6.86, 4.74, 3.31
> 
> Centos 3.x, Dual Xeon 2.8 /w 2.5 gigs of ram/HP Proliand 
> DL380G3 /w hardware RAID 1 (SCSI 10k drives)
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?  Seems that clamscan is 
> tooo freaking slow any more..
> 
> 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
> 
> These aren't slow boxes ..  but Clam is killing them..
> 
> 
> 
> 
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