guenther schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:35 +0200, Walter Bürger wrote:
>
>   
>> # time clamscan (in an empty directory)
>> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>> Known viruses: 108369
>> Engine version: 0.90.1
>> Scanned directories: 1
>> Scanned files: 0
>> Infected files: 0
>> Data scanned: 0.00 MB
>> Time: 18.512 sec (0 m 18 s)
>> clamscan 17.26s user 0.69s system 96% cpu 18.652 total
>>
>> This makes clamscan almost unusable.
>>     
>
> You want to use clamd/clamdscan instead of calling clamscan all the
> time. Just as Anton already pointed out in this thread, loading the
> virus signatures takes a lot of time.
>
> $ clamscan | egrep -i '(scanned|time)'
> Scanned directories: 1
> Scanned files: 0
> Data scanned: 0.00 MB
> Time: 10.460 sec (0 m 10 s)
>
> $ clamdscan | egrep -i '(scanned|time)'
> Time: 0.001 sec (0 m 0 s)
>
>   guenther
>
>
>   

Hi,

nevertheless - regardless of the chosen solution - clamscan can be 
considered useless in this state.
Scan times range from 18 to 40 seconds per examined file.

Will this be fixed in the near future ?

Best regards,
Walter.

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