Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I am running ClamAv for ages now. The behaviour is the same always. > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 29817 exim 2 0 11224K 7632K poll 0 4:59 27.64% 27.64% cla md > > clamd is always using over 20% CPU. > > OS : FreeBSD (SMP, 3 CPU, 1G RAM) > ClamAv : ClamAV devel-20040921/507/Mon Sep 27 13:53:21 2004 > (yes, I do run CVS most of the time) > > The server is a busy one though, but I don't think that justifies the > end.
If you're running > 5.2-CURRENT, you can use 'H' in top to display each process' threads. You might find that there is just a lot of mail being scanned (a lot of threads). I'm pretty sure that pthreads are now KSE so you should see threads using all you cpus on a busy system (mine's pretty idle): PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 555 clamav 20 0 28044K 26032K kserel 1 0:10 2.05% 2.05% clamd 555 clamav 20 0 28044K 26032K kserel 0 0:10 0.00% 0.00% clamd 555 clamav 20 0 28044K 26032K ksesig 0 0:10 0.00% 0.00% clamd 555 clamav 4 0 28044K 26032K accept 1 0:10 0.00% 0.00% clamd 565 clamav 20 0 2060K 552K pause 0 0:00 0.00% 0.00% freshclam Ian -- Ian Freislich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
