MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

[Randal, Phil]

Rick Cooper opined:

>  > 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
>  > 
> 
> I downloaded
> http://freshmeat.net/redir/clamav/38302/url_tgz/clamav-0.91rc1
> .tar.gz and
> the difference in load time is huge. From nearly 30 seconds to about 2
> seconds. I am timing how long it takes clamd to create and 
> listen to it's
> socket, which it does after it loads it's DBs (of course). This should
> translate directly to MailScanner and ClamAVModule, as well 
> as clamscan
> (since the DB load time per file is the slowest part of 
> clamscan). Given
> your times it sounds like youmust be running about 5 children?
> 
> Rick

Actually, it was 8 MailScanner children, dual processor box, though.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK