On Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:28, Brian Morrison shaped the electrons to say: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:37:31 +0200 in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Ryan > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am investigating the possibility of using a Unix socket as opposed > > to my current setup of tcp socket bound to 127.0.0.1. > > I was just wondering what the clamav users' experience of this setup > > is. Is there any benefits to Unix over TCP socket in both security and > > performance? > > It will definitely help performance on a loaded server, but it will not > be very noticeable on a lightly loaded one. > > I do this myself, and I don't have a high load. I work on the basis that > every little bit of performance is worth having.
Many thanks. I am scanning 1M+ mails a day, so hopefully this should make a big difference for me. -- Kind regards, +----------------------------------------------+ (0> Scott Ryan //\ Senior Unix/Linux Engineer V_/_ Telkom Internet - South Africa +----------------------------------------------+ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +27-721164832 Work: +27-126807835 12:44 Wednesday -- 22/Sep/2004 +----------------------------------------------+ He who controls the past, controls the future, He who controls the present, controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984 ================================================ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users