Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Steve Basford wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: >> >> Yes, I still have this directory.  If anyone is interested in it, I >> can tar it up and make it available.  Can also tar up the working >> directory is needed. > > Yep, I'll take a look and see if I can see anything

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-05 Thread Steve Basford
Freddie Cash wrote: Yes, I still have this directory. If anyone is interested in it, I can tar it up and make it available. Can also tar up the working directory is needed. Hi, Yep, I'll take a look and see if I can see anything this end. Cheers, Steve Sanesecurity _

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Avinash
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Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Avinash
Hi Tom, We are using clamav version 0.95.2 with both official and unofficial signatures. Last week we observed clamd is taking more time for scanning mails due to high load on the server. To fix the issue, installed older version 0.95.1, but there was no use (later came back to 0.95.2). After rem

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Tom Shaw
At 9:32 PM +0530 11/3/09, Avinash wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for the quick response. We are using the below 6 sanesecurity files. junk.ndb phish.ndb scam.ndb spear.ndb lott.ndb spam.ldb Some more info: I tried with adding these files one by one to clamd database, junk.ndb is causing more loa

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Avinash
Hi everyone, Thanks for the quick response. We are using the below 6 sanesecurity files. junk.ndb phish.ndb scam.ndb spear.ndb lott.ndb spam.ldb Some more info: I tried with adding these files one by one to clamd database, junk.ndb is causing more load among all. Phish.ndb, scam.ndb and spear.

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Basford
> Last week I offered some help to early diagnose possible problems before > they hit the end users and I was trying to establish some cooperation > with you and the other db providers in order to improve your QA process. Hi sorry for not replying earlier... I'll email off-list with a few thou

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread aCaB
Steve, I see more and more custom db related issues on this list... Last week I offered some help to early diagnose possible problems before they hit the end users and I was trying to establish some cooperation with you and the other db providers in order to improve your QA process. Just in case

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Basford
> Hi everyone, > > We are using Sanesecurity signatures in clamd for scanning mails. Recently > we are seeing some load issues on clamd server due to sanesecurity > signatures (load is automatically decreasing when the sanesecurity sigs > are > removed) Hi Avinash, I guess as others have already

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-02 Thread Jason Haar
On 11/03/2009 12:21 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > On a whim, I renamed the clamav database directory, ran freshclam to get > just the basic signatures, and restarted clamd. Number of signatures went > from 925,000+ to under 600,000, and CPU usage dropped to below 20%. Cleared > out 1200 messages fr

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-02 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Tom Shaw wrote: > At 4:10 PM -0600 11/2/09, Noel Jones wrote: > >> On 11/2/2009 1:42 PM, Avinash wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> We are using Sanesecurity signatures in clamd for scanning mails. >>> Recently >>> we are seeing some load issues on clamd server due

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Shaw
At 4:10 PM -0600 11/2/09, Noel Jones wrote: On 11/2/2009 1:42 PM, Avinash wrote: Hi everyone, We are using Sanesecurity signatures in clamd for scanning mails. Recently we are seeing some load issues on clamd server due to sanesecurity signatures (load is automatically decreasing when the sanes

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-02 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/2/2009 1:42 PM, Avinash wrote: Hi everyone, We are using Sanesecurity signatures in clamd for scanning mails. Recently we are seeing some load issues on clamd server due to sanesecurity signatures (load is automatically decreasing when the sanesecurity sigs are removed) Does anyone face t

Re: [Clamav-users] load under 0.90

2007-02-15 Thread Adam Stephens
Trevor Dodds wrote: I had the same problem running on a Sun Fire X2200 - Solaris 10. 88.7 I have a load avg of around 0.70 with .90 this shot up to 6.0 Cpu usage also on 88.7 is around 20% during large amounts of email with .90 this shot up to 90%. I've gone back to 88.7 as I can't afford the per

Re: [Clamav-users] load under 0.90

2007-02-14 Thread Abdul Rehman Gani
Hi, High CPU usage and too many open files problems here with 0.90 on OpenBSD 3.5. Have reversed to 0.88.7. Abdul ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

RE: [Clamav-users] load under 0.90

2007-02-14 Thread Trevor Dodds
nce hit. I compared my conf files to 88.7 and they are pretty similar. Trevor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson Sent: 15 February 2007 12:52 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] load under 0.90 On 2/14/

Re: [Clamav-users] load under 0.90

2007-02-14 Thread Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson
On 2/14/07, Rick Pim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a followup to my last note. using clamav-milter with --external seems to cause significant load issues: the system load average seemed top climb without bound -- i shut things down when it hit around 40. i shutdown clamd and clamav-milter and re

RE: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Kurt Buff
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:01:24 -0700 > Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > > > > > With hw acceleration my old Athlo

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Chris de Vidal
Trog said this with great authority: > If your users are also accessing the data via Samba, then use on-access > scanning via Samba VFS. The vscan module does that > http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php#samba-vscan Another good idea! CD Ever lied? You're a liar. Ever stolen? You're a thi

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Chris de Vidal
Lionel Bouton said this with great authority: > You may try to wrap the scan in a Perl script which only scan files with > modified mtimes. Good idea! CD Ever lied? You're a liar. Ever stolen? You're a thief. Ever hated? The bible equates hate with murder. Ever lusted? Jesus equated lust w

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Chris de Vidal
Jakub Suchy said this with great authority: > Is it possible to access your data in differrent way than via Samba? Samba > is very ineffective and slow and is causing overheads. Maybe you should > also try 2.6.x kernel with more effective I/O scheduler We're not going through Samba to clamscan the

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Lionel Bouton
Chris de Vidal wrote the following on 04/28/05 22:09 : >Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > > >> Scan on an evening when your users are gone? >> >> > >Thanks for the fast reply! > >A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with clamscan. > > > You may try to wrap

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Drav Sloan
Chris de Vidal wrote: > > <12 line signature snipped> > > You'll like my newer, shorter one :-) > > CD > > Ever lied? You're a liar. Ever stolen? You're a theif. Ever hated? > The bible equates hate with murder. Ever lusted? Jesus equated lust with > adultery. You've broken God's law. H

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Trog
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:26 +0200, Jakub Suchy wrote: > > Rob MacGregor wrote: > >> On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>We have a 1.25TB Samba server that > > Yes I/O bottleneck. > > Is it possible to access your data in differrent way than via Samba? Samba > is very inef

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Jakub Suchy
> Rob MacGregor wrote: >> On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>We have a 1.25TB Samba server that > Yes I/O bottleneck. Is it possible to access your data in differrent way than via Samba? Samba is very ineffective and slow and is causing overheads. Maybe you should also try

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Bogusław Brandys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob MacGregor wrote: > On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com >>CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) >>Kernel 2.4.28 >> >>I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server t

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com > CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) > Kernel 2.4.28 > > I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that > causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users n

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Todd Lyons said this while chewing gum: > If the scan is occurring during normal business hours, then yeah, you > need to nice the heck out of it to keep it from sucking away > performance. If you know a bit about c, you could add a commandline > option --delay=x where x is the number of milliseco

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:01:24 -0700 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > > > With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of > > d

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of > data in one minute. 2gb in one minute, ceterus paribus, means roughly 8.5 hours per ter

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Stephen Gran
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:15:17PM -0300, René Bellora said: > clamdscan is way faster Not necessarily. Single file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ clamscan F5D5010.exe F5D5010.exe: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 33876 Engine version: 0.84rc2 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files:

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Gian Carlo
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:18:41PM -0400, Chris de Vidal wrote: > Have you ever lied, no matter the color? I have. Have you ever stolen > anything, no matter the value? I have. Have you ever lusted? I have. > Jesus said whoever looks at a woman with lustful intent has already > committed adu

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Haar
Tomasz Kojm wrote: >With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of data in >one minute. > > 2Gb in one minute!!! That's pretty impressive - I wouldn't have thought you could do a directory listing of that much data in one minute (assuming it's not a single file of course!) --

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Chris de Vidal wanted us to know: >Is our situation that foreign? I was half expecting someone to tell me >"We have a 5TB FTP server and can scan it all under 40 minutes with .25 >extra load average! You just have to do this..." Most people with stuff that large have a three teir system: 1) AV

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Morgan Smith said this while chewing gum: > Do compiler options help? YMMV but if I'm looking for speed I'll > compile from source or create an RPM from the SRPM, and I'll add some > optimizations: > ./configure CFLAGS=-O3 -march=pentium4 > > The man page for gcc may provide more insight. OK I'll

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Morgan Smith
Chris de Vidal wrote: >ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com >CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) >Kernel 2.4.28 > >I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that >causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice >and I must kill the script.

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:09:55 -0400 (EDT) "Chris de Vidal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with > clamscan. Clam

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > Surely you're not doing a full scan each time, are you? Yeah, just like the large Windows boxen we run. It's a corporate requirement that we scan daily but clamscan is just too slow for a daily scan so I run it weekly. It's a decent compromise; I'd co

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
René Bellora wrote: > clamdscan is way faster Only on a frequent stop/start type scenario. (Unless things have changed). For an extended duration scan, any difference would be negligible. Matt ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
Chris de Vidal wrote: > > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with > clamscan. Surely you're not doing a full scan each time, are you? How often do you scan the system? I can't answer on

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread René Bellora
Chris de Vidal wrote: ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) Kernel 2.4.28 I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice and I must kill the script. I've even

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? Thanks for the fast reply! A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with clamscan. CD Have you ever lied, no matter the color? I have. Have you ever stolen anything, no matter the valu

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
Chris de Vidal wrote: > Ideas? Scan on an evening when your users are gone? Matt ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Load

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Ryan
Sorted the problem out - it appears that clamscan will fork new processes everytime it is called by the qmail scanner - I switched to using clamdscan which uses the clamd daemon. It has halved the original load to average of 1-3 ... On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 23:47, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [Clamav-users] Load

2004-03-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:18:13 +0200 Scott Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, I have upgraded clamav from 0.55 to 0.67-1 so I can now > catch the bagle-passwd worm. It works and it catches the virus, but I > have noticed a significant increase in the load on the machine. I am > running qma

Re: [Clamav-users] Load

2004-03-12 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:18, Scott Ryan wrote: > Hello all, I have upgraded clamav from 0.55 to 0.67-1 so I can now catch > the bagle-passwd worm. It works and it catches the virus, but I have > noticed a significant increase in the load on the machine. I am running > qmail on a 6cpu Xeon P3 700 wi