On 02/10/2012 10:53 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Reynolds, David C. wrote: >> I am (will be) running on a relatively large SGI Origin with a couple of >> hundred processors available. Is there an easy configuration setting to >> enable multiple clamd daemons to support multiple clamdscan clients in >> multiscan mode? > > Sure, clamd is threaded and likely has a default value of "MaxThreads 10"-- > check clamd.conf. > >> Each of the clamdscans are processing a particular set of subdirectories. >> Minimal scan time is critical for this operation so that the more processors >> that can be applied to the scan operation is important. >> >> Is there a practical limit to the number clamd threads that can be supported >> by one daemon?
You should probably increase your ulimit -n too, the number of open files, to something around 30000 if you have 500 threads. --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
