MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

[Randal, Phil]

OK, on my test (completely unloaded) CentOS 5 box MailScanner starts all
its children thus (to nearest 10 seconds, I hate excessive precision):

  without clamavmodule:  40 seconds

  with clamavmodule:    190 seconds

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 Randal, Phil
> Sent: 15 June 2007 07:59
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)
> 
> Yes,
> 
> It sure does.
> 
> Taking forever to load the virus database is a known 
> "feature" of ClamAV
> 0.90.x.
> 
> It's fixed in ClamAV 0.91RC.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
> --
> 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: 15 June 2007 07:34
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)
> > 
> > Well, I've finally figured out on the boxes that the 
> > Mail::ClamAV won't install with CPAN -- how to get them to 
> > install via RPM (not exactly a fun time figuring that out) .. 
> > the DAG repo for Centos is where I got everything (they have 
> > the perl-mail-clamav module, the perl-inline-perl, and 
> > obviously the clamav).
> > 
> > now, however, when MailScanner is starting, it takes a 
> > LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNG time to get the children to start.  
> > 
> > (on the order of 5 minutes)
> > 
> > the MailScanner --lint isn't that slow though..
> > 
> > output from top looks something like ...
> > 
> > 
> > 16477 root      25   0 65128  63M  3688 R    20.6  2.5   0:17 
> >   0 MailScanner
> > 16498 root      25   0 64908  63M  3684 R    19.6  2.5   0:13 
> >   0 MailScanner
> > 16503 root      25   0 64684  63M  3684 R    19.6  2.5   0:10 
> >   0 MailScanner
> > 16506 root      25   0 63748  62M  3684 R    19.6  2.4   0:08 
> >   0 MailScanner
> > 16510 root      25   0 60668  59M  3680 R    19.6  2.3   0:07 
> >   0 MailScanner
> > 
> > But once it's started, it works a treat
> > 
> > Jun 15 01:32:03 mail MailScanner[16477]: 
> > ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Eicar-Test-Signature:: 
> > ./l5F6T5xE016496/msg-16477-1.txt 
> > 
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