On 06/08/2010 07:54 PM, Vivien Raoul wrote: > 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 ?
Yes, but it also tries to load it itself, although only for testing so it doesn't take as much time to load it as in clamd. > 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 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
