>> Hi,
>> 
>> I looked in the archives and saw that Will Saxon reported an issue with 
>> scans taking too long. I am administering a small site where I have 
>> similar issues. My system:
>> 
>> 
>> Large mails apparently take a long time to finish scanning, and some 
>> appear never to finish. Here was my system today, after I logged in for 
>> the first time in about a week:
>> 
>> 09:55:17 up 11 days, 20:01, 3 users, load average: 87.08, 86.94, 86.82
>> 
>> OUCH! I tried to run "top" or "ps fax" to see what was going on, but 
>> they never showed anything. So instead, on a hunch, I ran "killall 
>> clamscan", and here's the result:
>> 
>> 09:59:44 up 11 days, 20:06, 3 users, load average: 40.82, 70.65, 80.83
>> 10:00:08 up 11 days, 20:06, 3 users, load average: 26.89, 64.98, 78.68
>> 10:00:40 up 11 days, 20:07, 3 users, load average: 16.29, 58.77, 76.18
>> 10:01:27 up 11 days, 20:07, 3 users, load average: 7.69, 50.54, 72.57
>> 10:02:04 up 11 days, 20:08, 3 users, load average: 3.94, 44.21, 69.51
>> 10:03:35 up 11 days, 20:10, 3 users, load average: 0.91, 32.72, 63.09
>> 10:06:05 up 11 days, 20:12, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 19.79, 53.67
>> 10:25:00 up 11 days, 20:31, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 1.18, 16.58
>> 

Hi,

I fee that, as a first measure, I would lower concurrencyincoming to the max 
number of
parallel clam scans the machine will handle at reasonable loads

Wolfgang Hamann



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