Rick Cooper wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > Chuck Swiger
> > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:42 AM
> > To: ClamAV users ML
> > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] speeding up clamav
> >
> > Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > How can i speed up clamav scanning?
> >
> > The most straightforward method would be to buy faster hardware.
> >
> > A more complex approach would be to have a better
> > understanding of your email
> > traffic and only send stuff to ClamAV after you've done your
> > best to refuse
> > spammy/viral messages using less costly mechanisms such as
> > greylisting, RBLs,
> > or things like Amavisd-new & similar (bogofilter,
> > policy-weightd, etc) before
> > feeding the email to more expensive filters such as virus
> > scanning or
> > SpamAssassin.
> >
> > Note that you're getting a somewhat generic answer, but then
> > you didn't
> > provide any sort of context such as which MTA you are using,
> > what your traffic
> > volume per hour/day tends to be, etc.
> >
> [...]
>
> Might be a fairly generic question. Clamav is very slow when compared to
> most competion, for instance f-prot. Scanning a 15mg file same machine, same
> file, and pretty much the same load, simple .exe, basic options:
>
> Three tests each, worse times for f-prot and avgscan, BEST times for
> clamscan and clamdscan:
>
> F-prot
>
> real 0m2.534s
> user 0m1.460s
> sys 0m0.330s
>
> Clamscan
>
> real 0m22.302s
> user 0m18.970s
> sys 0m0.570s
>
> Clamdscan
>
> real 0m4.690s
> user 0m2.290s
> sys 0m0.260s
>
> Avgscan
>
> real 0m4.690s
> user 0m2.290s
> sys 0m0.260s
>
> Now granted, not likely to scan 15mg email attachments but I also scan ftp
> and http downloads and cannot use clam for either because if someone
> downloads a 50mg file it takes forever, f-prot is still measured in seconds.
>
You left out a metric that has an impact on my business:
F-PROT Antivirus for Solaris Mail Servers
Number of Users Annual license fee
1-10 US$ 130
11-24 US$ 250
25-49 US$ 399
50-99 US$ 499
100-199 US$ 799
200-299 US$ 1099
dp
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