Clamscan can spend a looooong time loading signatures, etc. If you run your command with strace (or monitor the process with lsof, etc.) you'll probably see clamscan is busy accessing signature files.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:44 PM Eddie via clamav-users < clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > A POP3 proxy program I have running on a Debian 10.8 system, uses > clamscan to check incoming e-mails. At some point in the very early > morning (US West Coast time) it suddenly started taking a very long time > to scan each mail, So much that the controlling process would time out > before clamscan finished. Up to this point it was running fine. > > Running a test from the command line, on a very simple 1-line mail took > around 25 minutes: > > root@CleanMail:~# date ; clamscan test.msg -v --no-summary ; date > Mon 05 Apr 2021 11:59:10 AM PDT > Scanning /root/test.msg > /root/test.msg: OK > Mon 05 Apr 2021 12:24:06 PM PDT > root@CleanMail:~# > > Looking through the logs, I can't see anything happening in the period > between the last good scan and the sloooooow ones. > > Where should I be going next to track this down. > > Cheers. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >
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