> > But I'd like to understand why, on Sunday morning, the scan time which had > been under a minute per mail, for over 4 months, suddenly jumped to 25 > minutes per mail and has remained at that.
It's a good question. Is there any way to reproduce what was happening on Sunday morning? ... and then compare it to what is happening today? Has the size/location/access method to clamscan's signatures changed? Is your system (drives, network, etc.) healthy? On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:31 PM Eddie <stun...@attglobal.net> wrote: > Understood, which is why I'm looking to move to clamdscan. > > But I'd like to understand why, on Sunday morning, the scan time which had > been under a minute per mail, for over 4 months, suddenly jumped to 25 > minutes per mail and has remained at that. > > Cheers. > > On 4/6/2021 10:39 AM, Richard Graham wrote: > > Clamscan can spend a looooong time loading signatures, etc. If you run > your command with strace (or monitor the process with lsof, etc.) you'll > probably see clamscan is busy accessing signature files. > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:44 PM Eddie via clamav-users < > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > >> A POP3 proxy program I have running on a Debian 10.8 system, uses >> clamscan to check incoming e-mails. At some point in the very early >> morning (US West Coast time) it suddenly started taking a very long time >> to scan each mail, So much that the controlling process would time out >> before clamscan finished. Up to this point it was running fine. >> >> Running a test from the command line, on a very simple 1-line mail took >> around 25 minutes: >> >> root@CleanMail:~# date ; clamscan test.msg -v --no-summary ; date >> Mon 05 Apr 2021 11:59:10 AM PDT >> Scanning /root/test.msg >> /root/test.msg: OK >> Mon 05 Apr 2021 12:24:06 PM PDT >> root@CleanMail:~# >> >> Looking through the logs, I can't see anything happening in the period >> between the last good scan and the sloooooow ones. >> >> Where should I be going next to track this down. >> >> Cheers. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> clamav-users mailing list >> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >> >> >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >> > >
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