On Mon, 7 May 2007, Gareth Koopman wrote: > Good Morning > > I am running clamav with qmail on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 and i > have recently upgraded to clamav-0.90.2. Clamd's cpu usage shotup to an > average between 400% and 500%(8 cpu's), even though the amount of virusses > did'nt increase that much. > > Any ideas?
There is a small patch about clamav 0.90.2 that fix this kind of usage. I use it (with FreeBSD ports) and I have noticed no CPU hog with it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/clamav/files/patch-libclamav__matcher-ac.c /Xavier _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html