Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-23 Thread Arnaud Jacques / SecuriteInfo.com
Hello, > ls -d bin/* | parallel clamscan > looks easy but logging may be difficult in this case too. ls -d bin/* |parallel clamscan --no-sumary {} >yourlogfile.txt works fine. Anyway, this is time consuming and require a huge RAM. Because on a 8 thread CPU, 8 instance of clamscan will be run. S

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Exactly. dp On 6/23/15 10:24 AM, MarkusGMX wrote: Am 23/06/15 um 14:10 schrieb Gene Heskett: On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote: And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. And what might that result in? Warnings like that demand a scenario describing statement wh

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 June 2015 13:24:11 MarkusGMX wrote: > Am 23/06/15 um 14:10 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. > > > > And what might that result in? > > > > Warnings like that demand a scenario descr

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-23 Thread MarkusGMX
Am 23/06/15 um 14:10 schrieb Gene Heskett: On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote: And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. And what might that result in? Warnings like that demand a scenario describing statement where it could backfire. Perhaps he is thinking of th

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote: > And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. And what might that result in? Warnings like that demand a scenario describing statement where it could backfire. > On 6/22/15 1:13 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > > On 6/22/2015 2:50 PM, MarkusG

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. On 6/22/15 1:13 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 6/22/2015 2:50 PM, MarkusGMX wrote: Am 20/06/15 um 19:15 schrieb Markus Egg: Hello, how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for some reasons --multiscan does

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-22 Thread Noel Jones
On 6/22/2015 2:50 PM, MarkusGMX wrote: > Am 20/06/15 um 19:15 schrieb Markus Egg: >> Hello, >> >> how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? >> I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for some reasons >> --multiscan does not work with "clamscan". >> >> Thank you for any pointer. >> >> ME > > Bump

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-22 Thread MarkusGMX
Am 20/06/15 um 19:15 schrieb Markus Egg: Hello, how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for some reasons --multiscan does not work with "clamscan". Thank you for any pointer. ME Bump. Any pointers ? BR ME _

Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-22 Thread Steven Morgan
Hi, Clamscan uses a single execution thread. Clamd uses multiple threads vi pthreads and can better take advantage of multicore CPUs. Steve On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Markus Egg wrote: > Hello, > > how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? > I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for

[clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-20 Thread Markus Egg
Hello, how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for some reasons --multiscan does not work with "clamscan". Thank you for any pointer. ME ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrt