Yesterday I had to shut down clamd as it constantly uses 98% CPU on my windows server. (Which even blocked Imail User mailboxes, as the locking was not removed) Installing the latest version from 18.04. and removing all signatures from the share/clamav directory and getting them new with frehsclam and freshing the phish and scam signatures, everytgin looks fine again.
Matti >> >>> Sadly the scanning engine in ClamAV is not very optimized, >> >> Really? Might that depend on which build type you were using and which >> compile-time >> options had been selected? >> >> I have found it as good as MTA-integrated scanning, but I have found no >> published >> comparisons available. > Pardon the delay on this reply. > Those are possible causes however I was referring to the fact that the > scanning engine was changed a few months ago to enable scanning for > more/different types of viruses, the developers themselves admitted that > this introduces a nasty performance hit and they were working on it. > I however have not kept up on the ClamAV development so I can not say > for certain if this has been fixed. > I also base it on the fact that clamd uses around 100% cpu when scanning > a file, however on my exchange server ScanMail uses very little, and I > guarantee that ScanMail scans more messages since you can't tell it not > to scan. >>> if you have a >>> large volume of email I would recommend keeping an exchange integrated >>> virus scanner, personally I use Trend Micro at the moment but if I were >>> to building a new server/switch I would definitely go with nod32. >> >> OOI, what would be the reasons for going with NOD? > Performance, it's not Symantec/Mcafee, I don't like the latest version > of the Trend product, I am throughly impressed with the Nod32 desktop > scanning product, and the vast amount of recommendations I see for it on > other lists. > Kevin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user - Matti Haack - Hit Haack IT Service Gmbh Poltlbauer Weg 4, D-94036 Passau +49 851 50477-22 Fax: +49 851 50477-29 http://www.haack-it.de Registergericht Passau HRB 5678 USt. ID: DE195625715 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
