On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Scott Snow <s_sn...@u.pacific.edu> wrote:
> I'm working on a MapReduce project using Amazon's EC2. The only bottleneck > I have is that it takes ~35-40 seconds to scan each file, which seems very > high. I'm using a c program as a wrapper for ClamAV, which takes a single > file and the mode. Does anyone know approximately how long it takes to > initialize ClamAV and load the virus db? Would it be possible to just keep > the ClamAV process loaded/running? I've been searching quite a bit, but > haven't found anything so far. If anyone has any other suggestions for > optimization, that would be appreciated as well. I'm not very familiar with > ClamAV. > > This all depends on how many signatures you have loaded, it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute to load the full signature set on a reasonably spec'd machine. As Dennis mentioned you should defiantly use clamd for this work to significantly reduce your overhead. Tom > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > -- Senior Research Engineer SourceFire Vulnerability Research Team _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
