On Sunday 20 May 2007 17:16, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Thomas Spuhler wrote: > > Hello: I just joined the list and found this thread in the archive. > > It seems, I have a very similar problem. Clamscan is using up to 100% cpu > > and memory lately and sometimes cannot even keep up with the e-mail > > flood. It happened twice in about a month. I deleted all signature files, > > did a freshclam and it went away. Is these coming from borked signature > > updates? > > Clamscan has to load all the tables each time it is run and this is a > huge startup penalty. Clamdscan with clamd running (daemon) removes this > load. Clamd loads the tables once and is then optionally streamed data > or told where to find files to scan. Depending on how you use clamscan > it is possible that clamdscan will drop right in. Clamscan in a > real-time email scanning situation is a very bad idea. Another option is > clamav-milter if you're using Postfix or Sendmail for your MTA. The setup is provided by Kolab. Still strange that after replacing the signature files, the scan is working and this twice in about 5 weeks. > > dp > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
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