On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:17 +0100 Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been successfully running a clamav devel-20031128 snapshot
> on my OpenBSD 3.3 box to scan mail via smtp-vilter for quite
> some time now (it's a bit low-end hardware, K6/233).
>
> I tried twice to upgrade to newer snapshots (specifically,
> clamav-devel-20031204 and clamav-devel-20040127), but
> somehow clamd as well as freshclam need a incredibly long
> time for startup with extremely high CPU usage (didn't wait
> for the end, I killed both after about 5 minutes). Nothing
> like this happens with the 20031128 snapshot.
>
> (I tried clamd with a backup of the old cvd files after the
> newer freshclam failed to fetch new ones.)
>
> Anyone noticed something similar?
Alexander,
sorry for the big delay in my response. The problem is connected with a
blocking /dev/urandom we use for pseudo random numbers generation. I
don't know why it's blocking - it shouldn't. That special device is
meant for generating rather _low_ quality random numbers and one should
use /dev/random if he needs a really good randomness (and we don't need
it). Maybe for some security reasons they decided to change the standard
urandom behaviour ? I noticed similar problem with the new Linux kernel.
Best regards,
Tomasz Kojm
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