On 06/08/2010 02:14 PM, Vivien Raoul wrote: > 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.
Is it clamd or freshclam causing the load (freshclam loads the database as of 0.96.1, but doesn't build a trie). > > 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 ? reload is part of clamd, so you can nice all of clamd. Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
