Hi Ed,<br><br><b><i>Ed Bruce <edwardbruce@sbcglobal.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Julian Field wrote:<br>> <br>> Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:<br>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Martin wrote:<br>> <br>>>> Arto wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> We had this too. Uninstalling clamav* and installing it again helped.<br>>>>><br>>>>> -arto<br>>>>><br>>>> Thanks for all replies. Read about this issue on the clamav-list and <br>>>> hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.<br>>> I have similar problems with clamav myself.<br>> <br>>> What I did that improved a little bit<br>>> was deleting the virus database in /var/lib/clamav/*<br>>> and running freshclam again.<br>> <br>>> Still is very slow. If you try clamscan -debug you will<br>>> find out why it is
so damn slow....<br>> <br>>> Clamd works fast on the other hand.<br>>> Maybe it should be included officialy (clamdscan)<br>>> in MailScanner's the next version.<br>> Why? I already support the "clamavmodule" which is faster than clamd anyway.<br>> <br>> Jules<br><br>And I haven't noticed any performance degradation with clamavmodule<br>since upgrading to 0.90.2.<br></blockquote>Pardon my ignorance Ed, but I'm unfamiliar with clamavmodule, I just use the clamscan approach and have also experienced the load shoot up since updating to 0.90.2. <br><br>Are there any instructions on installing clamavmodule?<br><br>If that fixes the load problem I'll be happy to do it.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Michael.<br><br><p> Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com