On Wednesday 10 October 2007 08:13:29 pm Quey wrote: > If you goto www.clamav.net there is a link to it. > I heard they corrected the problem you mention in current, but clam is > still way to slow compared to other scanners so I don't use it anymore. > Q > Are you using clamscan or clamd/clamdscan? If the former, that's why it's so slow - see if you can switch. Also, what interface to your AV software are you using? Something like qmail-scanner that's a perl script is much slower than qscanq or simscan, which doesn't have the overhead of launching perl with each invocation.
One other hint - something I do for all my servers (I use simscan not, but I've also used it with qscanq in the past) is put the scanning directory onto a ramdisk (I use tempfs these days, but a true ramdisk would be even better if you can dedicate the memory to it). It prevents the excess disk I/O overhead that slows the process down, and since it's transient data anyway that shouldn't get through in case of an error, the fact that the scanning space isn't crash-proof is a non-issue... Josh -- Joshua Megerman SJGames MIB #5273 - OGRE AI Testing Division You can't win; You can't break even; You can't even quit the game. - Layman's translation of the Laws of Thermodynamics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
