On Monday 14 Feb 2005 02:40, Damian Menscher wrote: > Is there a performance benefit to using --external?
Depends on your set up. I load balance the scanning across several servers so I use --external. > I'm wondering if > this is similar to the clamscan/clamdscan performance difference. Does > clamav-milter cache the virus database when running in the internal > mode, or does it have to load it for each message? Cache isn't the right word to use, but the database file is not loaded for every message. > How does clamav-milter know about freshclam updates? I assume it has to > check for updates regularly? Is this selfcheck interval configurable > somewhere? 1) It uses the clamAV API to tell it that a new one has been loaded 2) Yes 3) It looks *at least* as often as set by readTimeout in clamd.conf. Of course this is not good, sharing one variable for two separate uses, it will change at some time. The *at least* part is because it also looks when it has nothing else to do. > Damian Menscher -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK. ICQ#20252325 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bandsman.co.uk _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
