The solution worked thank you very much. We also found that there are two 
copies of the virus database being loaded 

Gareth

On Monday, 7 May 2007, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
> Hello, Gareth.
>
> You wrote on Monday, May 7, 2007, 11:26:16 AM:
> > 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.
>
> clamav-0.90.2 compare to 0.88.7 have several changes, with increase
> CPU usage.
>
> Some of them:
>
> 1. Excessive memory allocations in matcher-ac.c
>
> I suggest use this patch:
> https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=434

> Or use latest svn version, where committed other
> Aho-Corasick pattern matcher implementation.
>
> 2. Early scanning in libclamav/blob.c
> I suggest to turn it off.
>
> Change
> #define        MAX_SCAN_SIZE   20*1024
> to
> #undef MAX_SCAN_SIZE


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