On 08/15/2009 08:09 AM, Strykar wrote: > Good question, could ClamAV developers comment on this? > Would TmpFS be more effective as it would start writing to /swap if the > system runs out of memory instead of stating "Out of memory" and stopping > the process? > These are HAVP questions - not ClamAV. You should have been asking them on the HAVP list.
Anyway, your choice of filesystem is probably irrelevant. The bottleneck for AV scanning will be the scanner itself - not the filesystem. I use the standard (disk) filesystem instead of ramdisk and CPU is my bottleneck - as expected. (I mean there is always a bottleneck in any process, it's only a matter of deciding whether it matters or not). -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
