2 fold question

[Jerry Benton]

I am working on a release for the end of the month or mid July. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



On Jun 19, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to> wrote:

> What a pity, before i wouldn't care about how much memory any given app would use, now that i have virtualized everything, it starts to matter :))
> 
> There are some people still working on MailScanner (believe they moved the sources to github) but have never seen a new release. Maybe the way forward would be to fork the code, supposedly there are some fixes in github that would also resolve the problem of the huge pileup of tmp files.
> 
> Thanks for explaining the differences between the 3 different ways of calling clamav!
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Rick Cooper wrote:
> 
>> ClamAV uses the command line clamscan for scanning, is slow (have to load dbs) and a bit of a resource hog, ClamAV module is a perl interface to
>> libclamav and is also a hog because it loads a copy of the db into memory for each child but only has to do it when MailScanner loads that child the
>> first time. The best choice is neither, use clamd.
>>  
>> clamd shares the resources between children and thus the real memory per child is much less and a far less load, is not perl. When MailScanner uses clamd
>> it talks directly to the clam daemon and doesn't have to load anything at all, just tell the daemon where/what to scan
>>  
>> IMHO the same thing should be done with spamd, I wrote the code years ago and it's really no faster (or at least negligibly so) but far less memory and
>> resources once again, than using the perl interface. It was difficult to get Julian to incorporate the clamd code but he never did incorporate the spamd
>> code unfortunatly.
>>  
>> Rick
>> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Philip Parsons
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:27 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: RE: 2 fold question
>> Anyone able to answer the first part of my question ? whats the diff between using clamav or clamavmodule
>>  
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Philip Parsons
>> Sent: June-18-14 1:56 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: RE: 2 fold question
>>  
>> Did that no go same error.
>>  
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeremy McSpadden
>> Sent: June-18-14 1:01 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: 2 fold question
>>  
>> You could have a corrupted db file. wipe all files in /usr/local/share/clamav/ and run freshclam .. see if it starts then.
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>> On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Philip Parsons <pparsons at techeez.com> wrote:
>>  
>> 
>>      No selinux is disabled and it just started in version 0.98.4
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