2010/6/8 Török Edwin <edwinto...@gmail.com> > 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 guess freshclam calls clamd for a reload, right ? In my process list, it's clamd which uses all the CPU. > > > > > 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. > Thank you, I will try it so, and give my feedback. > > Best regards, > --Edwin > Regards, Vivien. > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
