On Sep 10, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Rick Cooper wrote: > No argument from me, but it still begs the question why so much > slower? I > think clam is one of the best opensource projects in terms of > impact on the > community, and I certainly didn't mean to knock it in any way but I do > wonder why so much slower in performance when it's so competative (or > better) in about every other aspect.
You've showed that F-Prot is about twice as fast as clamdscan for your testcase. While it's almost certainly true that the performance of ClamAV could be improved, and doing profiling of the daemon or clamscan would provide useful insight into where the CPU time is going, if ClamAV is doing about as good or even a better job of catching email-bourne malware, well, it seems to me that the tradeoff being made is favorable. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
