Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Ralph Seichter via clamav-users
* Micah Snyder via clamav-users: > [ClamAV] would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for > requests and fork into the background so as not to block the boot > process. To me, slowing down the boot process is just the (admittedly annoying) symptom of an underlying ClamAV issue.

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users
I'm sorry, Ged. I didn't mean to demean the work of Julius Plenz, asulfrian, or yourself. I stepped into my current position on the ClamAV team just over two years ago and in my time here there have been many tasks that have been on the backburner or ignored entirely for multiple years. We

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users
Ged, That's a fair assessment. This is why I asked. Thanks, Micah On 9/13/19, 11:26 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" wrote: Hi there, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: > One thing we could do is have

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: One thing we could do is have clamd "start" before loading the database. That is to say that it would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for requests and fork into the background so as not to block

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.09.19 14:42, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: One thing we could do is have clamd "start" before loading the database. That is to say that it would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for requests and fork into the background so as not to block the boot

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979#c19 This patch applies to the current head of dev/0.102 ... If the development version is a step too far, the two files which I posted on September 10th implement

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users
One thing we could do is have clamd "start" before loading the database. That is to say that it would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for requests and fork into the background so as not to block the boot process. All scan requests would then be blocked while the database

Re: [clamav-users] Continuous increase of startup time (is daily.cld broken?)

2019-09-13 Thread Markus Kolb via clamav-users
I've opened an enhacement bug for this: https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12389 ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [clamav-users] Continuous increase of startup time (is daily.cld broken?)

2019-09-13 Thread Markus Kolb via clamav-users
Am 13.09.2019 12:09, schrieb Sergey: On Tuesday 10 September 2019, Markus Kolb wrote: Maybe these signatures got added in the last months. My logfiles tell me that the startup time of clamd was ok until February/March 2019. Yes, I didn't notice any problems at the beginning of the year

Re: [clamav-users] Continuous increase of startup time (is daily.cld broken?)

2019-09-13 Thread Sergey
On Tuesday 10 September 2019, Markus Kolb wrote: > Maybe these signatures got added in the last months. My logfiles tell > me that the startup time of clamd was ok until February/March 2019. Yes, I didn't notice any problems at the beginning of the year either. Meanwhile, the time increased by

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread Thomas Barth via clamav-users
Am 2019-09-13 00:57, schrieb Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users: Henrik, all: Alberto Wu, a former ClamAV core developer, has very kindly provided a patch to us today that he created to perform clamd database reloads in a separate thread. I have attached his work, with some minor tweaks