On 11/03/2009 12:21 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > On a whim, I renamed the clamav database directory, ran freshclam to get > just the basic signatures, and restarted clamd. Number of signatures went > from 925,000+ to under 600,000, and CPU usage dropped to below 20%. Cleared > out 1200 messages from the queue in under 15 minutes. Reran the script to > download all the extra signature databases, putting the total back up over > 700,000, and still the CPU usage is under 20%. >
Do you still have that renamed directory? Can you see what is different between the working and non-working dirs? The sansecurity folk would probably be interested... -- 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
