-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob MacGregor wrote: > On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com >>CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) >>Kernel 2.4.28 >> >>I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that >>causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice >>and I must kill the script. I've even reniced it to 19 with no luck. > > > Nice impacts scheduler time, which is fine if you've got a CPU > bottleneck. However I suspect your bottleneck may be disk related. > Worth checking. > > Oh, and the load average isn't the best measure of true load on a system. >
Yes I/O bottleneck.Clever RAM disk usage should improve things for temporary files which clamav uses frequently.By the way : could you check what kind of files you mostly have on this Samba server? Regards Boguslaw Brandys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCce5FtuGICzHOh+YRAuPaAJ93Zg1NtSTPhMpPfAGIFNBVfX2SAwCfVi4T YFadbZTuQv9g+zilDI9tTV4= =ePFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
