Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Eddie via clamav-users wrote: After setting up clamav-daemon, I suspect it's having the same issue, based on the 11 minute "stall" part way through the initialisation. Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 -> +++ Started at Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 ->

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Eddie via clamav-users
After setting up clamav-daemon, I suspect it's having the same issue, based on the 11 minute "stall" part way through the initialisation. Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 -> +++ Started at Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 Tue Apr  6 16:26:14 2021 -> Received 0 file descriptor(s) from systemd. Tue Apr  6 16:26:1

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Eddie via clamav-users
I can go back to bed and sleep.  :-) The only thing that runs on this server is the POP3 proxy code, nothing else.  And freshclam didn't pull any new signatures until after the slowdown started.  And take this with the same grain of salt I used to, when I worked support:  No, nothing was chang

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Richard Graham via clamav-users
> > 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

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Eddie via clamav-users
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

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Eddie via clamav-users
On 4/6/2021 8:56 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 06.04.21 08:43, Eddie via clamav-users 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

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Richard Graham via clamav-users
Clamscan can spend a long 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: >

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.04.21 08:43, Eddie via clamav-users 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 c

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Eddie via clamav-users 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

[clamav-users] clamscan suddenly taking 25 minutes for a single mail

2021-04-06 Thread Eddie via clamav-users
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