clamav MaxThreads?

[Frank Cusack]

On November 30, 2009 1:05:36 PM -0500 Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> 
wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Frank
> Cusack Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:10 PM To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: clamav MaxThreads?
>
>> Should the clamav (clamd.conf) MaxThreads number match the number
>> of children that MailScanner is configured to run?
>>
>> Sorry if this is documented somewhere.
>>
>
> Max threads should be set to a value => the maximum parallel scans you
> expect to see, if MailScanner is the only process scanning then matching
> the number of MS children or maybe one more. Bear in mind the real memory
> used per clamd child process is actually small as the virus data is
> shared among them so the default should be fine unless you are running
> more MS children than 10

So I was planning on running 40 MS children -- not because I have high
mail volume or anything, but because the documentation suggested 5
children per CPU and I have 8 cores.  Is that too many for my smallish
setup (150 mail accounts, typical small medium business email).

The machine running MS is also doing other stuff so I wouldn't want
MS to run away with all the CPU.

-frank