I've read many of the 'clamscan is running too slow!' messages on the net - hopefully, this is something a bit different, at least.
I'm running clamscan/clamd on eight RHEL5.4 Linux systems, and have been for a few years. I use clamd for the mail servers; for the other servers where someone might possibly download a file to their home directory, I just do a clamscan daily. Yesterday, on two systems, it crawled to a stop - took more than eight hours to check the few directories I have it look at. I tried to scan a small directory this afternoon - more than 13 minutes: ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 1248649 Engine version: 0.95.3 Scanned directories: 3 Scanned files: 79 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 228.85 MB Data read: 82.43 MB (ratio 2.78:1) Time: 794.250 sec (13 m 14 s) It's a dual P4 with 2Gb memory, so it's not the fastest thing around - but this is really, really slow. I've tried different directories; time is comparable. The clamscan file itself hasn't changed - I've pulled a backup. Can't see anything weird in any logs. Suggestions appreciated... -- Tim Boyer Denman Tire Corporation _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
