> 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 > > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > I have the same problem with clamav. How can i switch from clamscan to clamdscan? I'm using postfix.
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