On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:57, Jim Maul shaped the electrons to say: > Scott Ryan wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:52, Trog shaped the electrons to say: > >>On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: > >>>This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. > >> > >>This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing > >>very bad things to the clamav install, like linking clamdscan to > >>clamscan. > > > > Why the hell would they want to suggest that?? This would totally limit > > the ability to scale. Are there any docs suggesting what the 'benefits' > > are? When I took over here at my current job, qmailscanner was setup to > > use clamscan instead of clamdscan. We send/receive over a million mails a > > day and the cpus were sitting at 100% constantly. The first thing i did > > was to change to clamdscan and cpu usage dropped unbelievably. > > First off, the QMR install is for people who are new to this type of > setup and is NOT meant to be used in a full large volume production > environment.
I dont dispute that. > If you are using the QMR setup in this type of enviroment > its your own damn fault. The suggested linking of clamdscan to clamscan > was done to eliminate usage of clamd which at the time (i believe around > ver 0.6 or so) there were some serious stbility issues > To avoid these issues the site author just suggested the linking. This is why i > suggested that the instructions are out of date. Yes the site was > updated recently, but no, this text was not changed. What are we arguing about here? I just know in my experience that you are seriously shooting yourself in the foot by using clamscan to scan all mails. Trog's suggestion of modifying qmail-scanner (if you really want to create the link) sounds like the sensible solution to those who use QMR. -- +----------------------------------------------+ (0> Scott Ryan //\ Senior Unix/Linux Engineer V_/_ Telkom Internet - South Africa +----------------------------------------------+ He who controls the past, controls the future, He who controls the present, controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984 ================================================ _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
