This one time, at band camp, Chris Hannam wrote: > Hi, > I`m running Clam AV 0.87 and have noticed some poor performance when > scanning large (20Mb+) Power Point presentations. These scans can take
Of course it will take long to scan files of that size. > upwards of 3 minutes. I had similar issues with 0.86.1 but upgrading > has not resolved the problem. > > I'm running Clamd with Mimedefang on a 2.4Ghz Xeon 4 processor machine > with 3Gb of RAM, running Red Hat 8. I'm not sure about mimedefang, but I found that reformime was very fast. I used to use ripmime, but because of speed issues, I changed to reformime. I also removed the scanMail option from clamd.conf. > > Has anyone else experienced issues with .ppt files taking large amounts of > time? Set your file limit to something smaller (10Mb, I find is ok). It is extremly unlikely you are going to get any virii that are larger than that. > > Chris Hannam > -- slr, ISP Systems Specialist Telkom Internet #qmail-ldap @ irc.freenode.net This message has been made from 100% recycled bits. ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/MU/E d? s+:+ a- C++++>+++++ USL++++$ P++++ !E(---)W+@ !N o?(--) K? !w(---) O- M+ V PS+@ PE Y-- PGP++>+++ !t(---) !5 !X R-- !tv b(++) DI++ !D(----) G+++>++++ e++>* h----(*) r+++ y++++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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