On 04/25/12 07:55, Török Edwin wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if this can help speeding up the process but I collected some 
>> statistics on 
>> clamscan of a small file (wallclock duration: ~25sec):
> 
> I think I'm missing some context here: which DB files are slow to load?
> The official ones? Just the sanesecurity ones? Any particular DB from the 
> sanesecurity ones?

My problem isn't so much that it takes a while to load the signatures,
but that clamd (and thus the mail server) is effectively down the entire
time.

Assuming clamd has a list of signatures in memory, why not just read the
sigs from disk one-at-a-time, and update the in-memory list atomically?
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