Hello, I use an old PC as a gateway at home ; with mail and web proxies using the clamAV socket. This machine only has 128MB of RAM. It worked very well until I install the 0.96 version (and more recently the 0.96.1 one). First of all, the startup takes more time ; it's not really a big problem since as a gateway it doesn't have to reboot very often. But the problem goes when freshclam updates the database ; as you can see in the logs it takes a loooong time :
Tue Jun 8 11:17:17 2010 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Tue Jun 8 11:23:04 2010 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav Tue Jun 8 11:23:41 2010 -> Database correctly reloaded (799445 signatures) I added more swap to the machine, but the load average is incredibely high during the reload procedure. As a result, I can't browse during the reloading operations. I can't add memory. I was wondering if there would be a way to allow my proxies to communicate with the clamav socket during the reload ; maybe by setting a lower priority to the reload process ? If this operation is possible, which processes should I nice ? Regards, Vivien. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
