Re: [clamav-users] [OT] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Bernard Thédié wrote: [ ... ] > Silly reason... my computer has a very, very noisy fan. At 90% it's > unbearable ! So it's OK for a short burst, but scanning my USB key takes > about 40 mn... few programs (that I use) need resources for such a long time. If it's a

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Bernard Thédié
Le 24/07/2014 21:08, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : On 24.07.14 20:23, Bernard Thédié wrote: Silly reason... my computer has a very, very noisy fan. I'm afraid you can avoid this problem only by not using anything that eats CPU. well, "conservative" CPU performance governor could help a b

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Le 24/07/2014 19:02, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : why do you want your CPU to be idle when it can do the scanning? at nice level od 19, program only runs when nothing else needs the CPU. On 24.07.14 20:23, Bernard Thédié wrote: Silly reason... my computer has a very, very noisy fan. I'm

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Bernard Thédié
Le 24/07/2014 19:02, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : On 24.07.14 09:34, Bernard Thédié wrote: Using clamdscan brings up more questions. clamdscan works pretty well with the option --fdpass. However, the scan process is still using 98% of one CPU, even if I do a "sudo renice 19 ". On a dual co

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 24.07.14 09:34, Bernard Thédié wrote: Using clamdscan brings up more questions. clamdscan works pretty well with the option --fdpass. However, the scan process is still using 98% of one CPU, even if I do a "sudo renice 19 ". On a dual core, it leaves a processor free for me to work during the

Re: [clamav-users] Still fighting with ClamAV and Ubuntu

2014-07-24 Thread Tom Judge
Looks like you are missing the clamav group (or other group that clamd is set to run as in the config file). Tom On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Chris wrote: > Still trying to get this to work with SA. I'm pretty sure it's not going > to until I get the correct reply: > > [sudo] password for

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-24 Thread Bernard Thédié
Le 23/07/2014 11:53, Steve Basford a écrit : On Wed, July 23, 2014 10:41 am, Bernard Thédié wrote: I'm using clamav under Linux. I've scheduled a daily scan of my home dir. I would like to know if there's a way of telling clamscan to run more nicely ; actually when clamscan runs, it takes betw