Re: [clamav-users] Worrying clamscan timing trend

2015-08-14 Thread Chris St John
I found the problem, and actually it brought my server to a halt and required extensive work in "single user mode" to bring it back online. ClamAV writes temporary files to /private/var/folders - a lot of temporary files, several million in fact - and it looks like OSX doesn't deal very well with

Re: [clamav-users] Worrying clamscan timing trend

2015-07-09 Thread Al Varnell
Not sure why you feel a need to use brew for this as installing it from source is not that difficult. All you need is XCode. There are instructions available on the ClamXav site: -Al- On Jul 9, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Chris St John wrote: > I've installed Clam

Re: [clamav-users] Worrying clamscan timing trend

2015-07-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
Check your logs and see if it was scanning any network/USB devices. The number of files scanned jumped quite a bit. Other than the number of scanned files growing has there been any other changes made on the system that might compete with disk IO, CPU, and memory? dp On 7/9/15 8:02 AM, Chris

[clamav-users] Worrying clamscan timing trend

2015-07-09 Thread Chris St John
I've installed ClamAV 0.98.5 using "brew" on OSX (Yosemite) and I schedule a daily freshclam followed by clamscan using Jenkins-CI. I've noticed a worrying trend in the scan times over the past couple of weeks: June 20 --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 3849353 Engine version: 0