On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody given thought to moving the virus scanners and > their pattern files to a ramdisk?
> My thinking is that the virus scanner, or in my case > scanners, get executed for every email... If you use a daemonized scanner (like clamd, for instance), the patterns are only read once at startup, or each time the database is updated. If you use a command-line scanner, then yes, putting the virus scanner binary and patterns in a ramdisk will probably help quite a lot. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
