2 fold question

[Rick Cooper]

Mailscanner is fine with spamd restarting same as when clamd reloads, when
spamd restarts (IIRC) it's children finish processing before dying. I used
spamd with MailScanner for several years now and have had not issues, same
score and as far as performance (speed) it's pretty much six of one and half
dozen of the other. I origianlly setup timers on both and ran both on each
email and one might be a very bit faster on a given email and then flip so
pretty much even, would say over all no difference, resource wise very big
difference. Now I don't have 200,000 emails a day but I would bet that spamd
would out perform the MailScanner implemenation on a very busy server 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Randal,
Phil
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:32 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: 2 fold question

A spamd failure could let a lot of spam through (or a backlog of unprocessed
email, depending on how it was implemented).

Memory leaks in spamd could also prove problematic, unless it had scheduled
restarts, assuming that MailScanner could cope with that.

Nonetheless, it would be interesting to compare the performance of a spamd
version with the current implementation.

Slower, I suspect, but less of a memory hog.

Cheers,

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Remco
Barendse
Sent: 19 June 2014 15:52
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: 2 fold question

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
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> ______________________________________________________________________
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> 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:
>
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>       No selinux is disabled and it just started in version 0.98.4
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