Clamav suggestions

[Andrew MacLachlan]

This is all very well, but make sure your host has enough memory and you have vmware-tools installed and running otherwise ESX will page for you if it's short of memory - and that isn't pretty...
CPU isn't that important with VMs - - I've never seen an ESX box max out it's processors unless it's already run out of physical memory.
 
Regards, 
Andrew MacLachlan



----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Sent: Friday, 4 May, 2007 11:17:32 PM
Subject: Re: Clamav suggestions

<<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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