Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: > clamdscan solved that issue, although I would have appreciated this > effect *before* I upgraded to a newer release. This keeps comming up, perhaps it needs to be addressed in the docs. Could you tell us why you used clamscan instead of clamd/clamdscan

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: > >> clamdscan solved that issue, although I would have appreciated this >> effect *before* I upgraded to a newer release. > > This keeps comming up, perhaps it needs to be addressed in the docs. > > Could you tell us w

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Spuhler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Rostetter wrote: I posted on another list as well, but thought this may gets more attention from the developers: > > They are well aware of it. > Clamscan is extremely slow and CPU hungry. clamscan a pdf file of about 1.2 MB

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: > I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time > ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which > had worked until sometime ago). So I configured mimedefang for clamscan. Maybe it's time to ask the mimedefang

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Peter Boosten wrote: > > Eric Rostetter wrote: >> 1) Yes, it is slow. >> 2) Yes, it wasn't always like this (and hence you could down-grade to an >> older >> version if you needed). >> 3) Newer versions are faster (see below). >> 4) Yes, it still can be used for a mail server (I know, as I'm

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: > >> I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time >> ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which >> had worked until sometime ago). So I configured m

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Anyway, my point is, your millage may vary. Don't try to impose your views > on everyone else. Whoa here. Did you chime and and give a good way to use clamscan on production ? Every time this comes up the answer is "don't do it". If that is the answ

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. Neither is entirely ideal, but we should take the wide vari

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Bill Landry
jef moskot wrote the following on 6/18/2007 12:19 PM -0800: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. >> > > I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given > that the other option is a daemon that c

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, jef moskot wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. > > I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given > that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. >

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Eric Rostetter wrote: > >> Anyway, my point is, your millage may vary. Don't try to impose your views >> on everyone else. > > Whoa here. Did you chime and and give a good way to use clamscan on > production ? Not exac

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Warren
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jef moskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. > >I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given >that the other option is a daemon that can pot

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chris
On Monday 18 June 2007 2:35 pm, Dave Warren wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jef moskot > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. > > > >I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycle

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.90.2: install clamav-milter on Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-18 Thread Randall Perry
Randall Perry wrote: > Having trouble building with clamav-milter. > > Initially I did just: > ./configure --enable-milter --prefix=/opt/local > make > make install > > It installed fine. But running the startup script I noticed > clamav-milter wasn't installed. > > So, installed the l

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt > /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR > > I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Anyone with > any ideas? Because you didn't RTFM. :-) clamdscan passes the file name to clamd, which

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time > > ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which > > had worked until sometime ag

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chris
On Monday 18 June 2007 5:04 pm, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt > > /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR > > > > I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Anyone > > with any ideas? > > B

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
jef moskot wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. > > I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given > that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. Neither is > entirely ideal, but

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Eric Rostetter wrote: >> >>> Anyway, my point is, your millage may vary. Don't try to impose your views >>> on everyone else. >> Whoa here. Did you chime and and give a good way to use clamsca

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, jef moskot wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. >> I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given >> that the other option is a daemon that ca

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Chris wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007 5:04 pm, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt >>> /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR >>> >>> I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Any

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Jan-Pieter Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > clamscan has a purpose. As others have also said - YMMV. A very lightly > loaded mailserver (~100 msgs/day) shouldn't have a lot of problems with > clamscan. At least not with the 0.88.x version. We've been using it, and deliver hundreds of thousan

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Not exactly. But I did say that I am using it in production. Now, if it >> is a good way or not, that is a subjective matter. > > Not exactly - it is measurable. And it is really bad. No, it _IS_ subjective, and it depends on your available resour

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Not exactly. But I did say that I am using it in production. Now, if it >>> is a good way or not, that is a subjective matter. >> Not exactly - it is measurable. And it is really bad. > > No, it _IS_ subjective, and it d

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> No, it _IS_ subjective, and it depends on your available resources. And in >> my opinion, with my resources, it is tolerable. Your milage may vary. > > Sorry, no. For any particular machine you can measure the performance of > each clamav client an

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread John Rudd
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: >> >>> I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time >>> ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which >>>

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread John Rudd
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:45:30PM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: >> if you have sufficient system resources, and are willing to >> tolerate slow delivery times (up to 4 minutes on my system, with clamscan >> on 0.90.3 for example). > > I'm just amazed by all the nitpicking i

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread John Rudd
John Rudd wrote: > (* "questionable"? "not idea"? sure.. unacceptable to the point of > firing someone? that's incompetent management) That should have said "not ideal", not "not idea". ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://