* Trog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050120 14:01]: wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:47, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > > Thanks for that. Looks like that is what was causing my problems with > > clamd!! I will monitor to see the behaviour. I am running CVS code of > > today> > > Are there other tune-ups that can be applied to clamd on a very busy > > server? > > As usual, it depends on what the bottleneck is with your hardware. > > You can tune the thread settings to the number of CPUs and the amount of > concurrent traffic you get. > > The most likely bottleneck will be I/O. If you've got lots of spare > memory you could but the clam TMPDIR on a RAM disk. Or you could improve > things by having it on a dedicated disk, and tune the filesystem for > fast throughput (no atime, no journalling).
Noted! > To be honest, ClamAV is unlikely to be a problem unless you are handling > millions of messages a day. How many are you doing? I am doing quite a lot, for example (never mind the dates!) see the stats below: http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/Eximstats/4/ username = clamav password = clamav -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
