Clamav suggestions

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri May 4 23:17:32 IST 2007


<<snip>>
>> You may want to decrease the number of MailScanner processes running
>> under Max Children. I've got a vmware guest with 1 GB of RAM. The host
>> is a dual socket dual core 3.2 GHz Xeon. We're not see any swap at all
>> running clamavmodule. However, I have Max Children set to 7. This
>> particular scanner handles internal mail only and scan times are only
>> a couple of seconds during the middle of the day with batch sizes of 1 or 
> 
> Max Children = 10 (which should be the recommended value with 2
> processors.)
> 
Don't forget the other recommendation: 1 GB ram  per processor, especially
with spamassassin.

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