On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:31:17 +0000 "Macdonald, Lillian" <lillian.macdon...@logica.com> wrote:
> I am testing clamd on unix (solaris actually) and my test involves > streaming several thousand files to the daemon via a number of threads > and collecting response information. > > I notice that, even when I increase the thread count in the > clamd.conf, the CPU utilization on my Solaris machine is low. This > suggests to me that the clam daemon is self throttling. Perhaps this > was done as a response to previous problems with high utilisation? Is > there any way that I can increase CPU utilisation? clamd uses 1 thread to scan 1 file. Try issuing multiple clamdscan commands in parallel, or if you want to do a filesystem scan use 'clamdscan -m /path/to/singledirectory'. And try setting MaxThreads to 2*number_cores+1. Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
