Jason wrote: > Traffic will be around 10-15,000 emails sent and received daily. > > Couple of questions about ClamAV. > Can someone give me a run down on stability of ClamAV? Is it pretty much > just set it up and let it run? Reliability? Performance. A daemonized > version of software was very important to me, that is why im looking at > ClamAV.
While I think ClamAV is a great project, and follow it closely, I'd have to say that IMO the milter interface is currently unusable from a stability perspective. I've been runninng ClamAV since September, and have had consistent problems with session timeouts causing the milter to hang, then spawn an ever growing number of hanging child processes. These problems have got steadily worse since Septemeber, and I reluctantly uninstalled ClamAV about 2 weeks ago due to the problems it was causing with mail delivery. Others may have different experience, but my past posts to this list have suggested that there are at least several other lurkers who are waiting for a fix to the runaway process/session timeout bugs. > Anything that can help me sell this program to our management is greatly > appreciated. If you're going to run ClamAV in production, I'd suggest using something like Mailscanner, which will invoke the scanner on each message. The downside of this is that you lose much of the advantage provided by daemonized milter modules, as there is a process fork overhead for each message, though you may be able to use clamdscan as opposed to clamscan to partially mitigate this. Mike. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
