On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:00:00 -0400 Joel Esler wrote: > You are not remembering correctly. That may have been true a decade > ago, but for the last half dozen years or so the main stayed the > same for every new release and was only updated when it was more > efficient to update it than to continue downloading large daily?s. I > seem to recall that the last update was late and that there was > approximately a year between updates in earlier days, but even that > varied.
According to our backup records (see below), in the 2 year period from April 2008 to April 2010, there were *7* different main.cvd files (at least), or more often than one every two releases (see below). > You may be correct in that it's time for another update, but since > it mostly impacts the load on network servers and not you and other > clients, that?s something the team will need to analyze and decide. > > All is correct here. I'll check with the team of when > the 'rollover' will take place, as this has a substantial impact on > the mirror infrastructure, we have to let the mirrors know before we > do it. As you can imagine, the 7M+ users of ClamAV all downloading > a main.cvd from a mirror is quite heavy on bandwidth if you aren?t > expecting it. I don't know exactly how big a new main.cvd file would be, but even if it were as big as the current main.cvd (62 MB) *plus* the current daily.cvd (28 MB) taken together, it would still be only 90 MB, which is significantly less than the 140 MB for the 5 updates to the daily.cvd file downloaded in one 24 hour period this week. Paul Kosinski P.S. Maybe it's time for an 'rsync' or 'drpm' approach for daliy.cvd? ++++++ From our records of CLAMAV files backed up 0.93 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 13050207 Apr 15 2008 main.cvd 0.93.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 13050207 Jun 10 2008 main.cvd.080610-2315 0.93.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 15200793 Jul 12 2008 main.cvd.080712-1625 0.94 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 15200793 Sep 6 2008 main.cvd.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 17457430 Sep 4 2008 main.cvd.080904-1709 0.94.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 18462921 Nov 7 2008 main.cvd 0.94.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 18462921 Nov 28 2008 main.cvd.081128-2131 0.95 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 20091559 Mar 26 2009 main.cvd 0.95.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 20091559 Apr 10 2009 main.cvd.090410-2321 0.95.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 21253696 May 14 2009 main.cvd 0.95.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 21253696 May 14 2009 main.cvd.090514-1231 0.96 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 22906487 Apr 3 2010 main.cvd 0.96.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 22906487 Apr 3 2010 main.cvd _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
