On 06/12/2006, at 6:12 PM, Eric B. wrote:

>> Every now and then I notice that there are no new entries in ASSP's
>> log. Looking at Activity Monitor I notice that clamd and kernel_task
>> are both running at about 57% of CPU. kernel_task usually runs at
>> less than 1%.
>>
>> As soon as I quit clamd, mail starts flowing flowing through ASSP
>> (after it realises that it can't connect to the socket). clamd.log
>> doesn't say anything, - the last entries say "SelfCheck: Database
>> status OK".
>
> If you are running ClamAV integrated with ASSP, then yes - several  
> users
> have already reported that this is a significant slowdown for ASSP,  
> and
> everyone has recommended putting it outside ASSP.  Either on the  
> MTA itself,
> or a intermediate MTA that does nothing but AV & relaying between  
> ASSP and
> your actual MTA.  I'm not entirely sure where the slowdown is, but  
> likely
> something related to the fact that ASSP is single threaded.
>
> Eric

Yes I am running ClamAV integrated with ASSP. If, as you suggest, it  
is something to do with integration of ASSP with ClamAV, not ClamAV  
itself, then I will go back to using ClamSMTP.

Thanks Eric,

James.

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