Would it be better to *pause* the scan if/when the computer gets busy ?
If you "nice" the scan it will only run when the cpu is less busy;
if you have "ionice" you can make it run when the disk is less busy.
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Zvi Kave via clamav-users wrote:
Hi ,
My goal is to terminate scan of big number of files like '/' on CPU
busy hours. Then to continue approximately from the interrupted
directory on nonbusy hours. Seems that I have to put some code in
clamscan/manager.c
Thanks,
Zvi
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:01 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Zvi Kave via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > Seems that the parameter --max-scantime=#n aborts scan on every file
> after #n ms.
> > But it continues to the next file, instead of clamscan termination +
> summary as I need.
>
> You can easily start another process, which sleeps for your desired
> number of seconds and then kills the clamscan process. You won't get
> the exact summary which clamscan gives when it terminates normally, but
> you will get the output about what's been found so you can approximate
> the report e.g. by piping the output of the clamscan process to a file
> (perhaps asking for verbose reporting from libclamav and/or clamscan as
> well as reporting clean files) and doing a little bit of scripting.
>
> This does seem to me to be a strange thing to want to do. If you can
> explain exactly what the problem is and why you think this is the
> solution we might be able to offer alternatives or other suggestions.
--
Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
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