MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

[Rick Cooper]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of René Berber
 > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:37 AM
 > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
 > Subject: Re: MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)
 > 
 > Randal, Phil wrote:
 > 
 > > It sure does.
 > > 
 > > Taking forever to load the virus database is a known 
 > "feature" of ClamAV
 > > 0.90.x.
 > 
 > Not in the order of 5 minutes, it's around 30 seconds.  
 > Something else must be
 > the problem.
 > 
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Another thing to look at is the sig count, should be 140,000+ if you see
200,000+ look in the db dir (/usr/share/clamav) and see if you have both
.inc dirs and .cvd files for main and/or daily (ex: main.inc and main.cvd).
This will cause you to load the db's twice, hence the 200,000+

Rick


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