Re: [Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-30 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Wed, November 29, 2006 5:01 pm, Tom Samplonius said: I don't know if that is accurate. clamd seems completely CPU bound. I also don't know why additional threads would use a lot of extra memory, as clamd seems to just stream data from the files it is caching. And I don't see it in

Re: [Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-30 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:15:39AM -0500, Daniel T. Staal wrote: I don't know if that is accurate. clamd seems completely CPU bound. I also don't know why additional threads would use a lot of extra memory, as clamd seems to just stream data from the files it is caching. And I don't

Re: [Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
Daniel T. Staal wrote: On Wed, November 29, 2006 5:01 pm, Tom Samplonius said: I don't know if that is accurate. clamd seems completely CPU bound. I also don't know why additional threads would use a lot of extra memory, as clamd seems to just stream data from the files it is caching. And I

Re: [Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Tue, November 28, 2006 10:53 pm, Tom Samplonius said: How do you choose the best MaxThreads value for a dedicated mail server? Should MaxThreads be each to double the number of cores, or something like that? What happens if MaxThreads is set too high? Too low? The main advice I've

Re: [Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Daniel T. Staal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, November 28, 2006 10:53 pm, Tom Samplonius said: How do you choose the best MaxThreads value for a dedicated mail server? Should MaxThreads be each to double the number of cores, or something like that? What happens if

[Clamav-users] Choosing best MaxThreads value for clamd?

2006-11-28 Thread Tom Samplonius
How do you choose the best MaxThreads value for a dedicated mail server? Should MaxThreads be each to double the number of cores, or something like that? What happens if MaxThreads is set too high? Too low? Tom ___ Help us build a comprehensive