Well, the progress you see is likely to be transfer, not processing, time since that’s where most time is going to be spent for a sizable file anyways (under normal circumstances) so I doubt clamd is your main latency source here.
Can you elaborate on your setup a bit? Is the ICAP proxy in-line to your users or alongside another caching proxy like squid? - Rafael -- Scanii.com | the web friendly virus scanner > On Jul 7, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Jason Haar <jason_h...@trimble.com> wrote: > > Great timing for me on this topic. We are currently phasing out our use > of Henrik's great havp proxy and are going to ICAP - and I have been > majorly disappointed with the performance of the commercial ICAP > services I've tried > > I had a 60M zip file I was testing with via Firefox: Kaspersky would say > "9 hours" to download, then go "9h, 9h, 9h, 9h, complete!" - which is an > AWFUL end-user experience. F-Secure would go "unknown, unknown, unknown, > complete!" - which is even worse. Strangely enough, the one ICAP service > that worked well was - c-icap with CLAMD! That seemed to give a much > better feeling of "2m, 2m, 1m, complete!" - which seems to contradict > what's been said here > > Henrik - you said ICAP "can't achieve such trickery" - are you sure > about that? If that's true (and my c-icap test is somehow mistaken), > then I'm majorly disappointed - and a bit stuck as to how to do AV > filtering without users screaming > > (PS: yes the AVs all took 2minutes to download and process the same file > - but the *perception* of performance is the key attribute I want to see) > > Jason > > -- > Cheers > > Jason Haar > Corporate Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. > Phone: +1 408 481 8171 > PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
