Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: clamdscan solved that issue, although I would have appreciated this effect *before* I upgraded to a newer release. This keeps comming up, perhaps it needs to be addressed in the docs. Could you tell us why you used clamscan instead of clamd/clamdscan

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: clamdscan solved that issue, although I would have appreciated this effect *before* I upgraded to a newer release. This keeps comming up, perhaps it needs to be addressed in the docs. Could you tell us why you

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Spuhler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Rostetter wrote: I posted on another list as well, but thought this may gets more attention from the developers: They are well aware of it. Clamscan is extremely slow and CPU hungry. clamscan a pdf file of about 1.2 MB and it takes about

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which had worked until sometime ago). So I configured mimedefang for clamscan. Maybe it's time to ask the mimedefang

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Peter Boosten wrote: Eric Rostetter wrote: 1) Yes, it is slow. 2) Yes, it wasn't always like this (and hence you could down-grade to an older version if you needed). 3) Newer versions are faster (see below). 4) Yes, it still can be used for a mail server (I know, as I'm still

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Christopher X. Candreva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which had worked until sometime ago). So I configured mimedefang

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Eric Rostetter wrote: Anyway, my point is, your millage may vary. Don't try to impose your views on everyone else. Whoa here. Did you chime and and give a good way to use clamscan on production ? Every time this comes up the answer is don't do it. If that is the answer,

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. Neither is entirely ideal, but we should take the wide

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Bill Landry
jef moskot wrote the following on 6/18/2007 12:19 PM -0800: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, jef moskot wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail.

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Christopher X. Candreva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Eric Rostetter wrote: Anyway, my point is, your millage may vary. Don't try to impose your views on everyone else. Whoa here. Did you chime and and give a good way to use clamscan on production ? Not exactly. But I

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Warren
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] jef moskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can potentially

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chris
On Monday 18 June 2007 2:35 pm, Dave Warren wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] jef moskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn,

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.90.2: install clamav-milter on Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-18 Thread Randall Perry
Randall Perry wrote: Having trouble building with clamav-milter. Initially I did just: ./configure --enable-milter --prefix=/opt/local make make install It installed fine. But running the startup script I noticed clamav-milter wasn't installed. So, installed the libmilter

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Anyone with any ideas? Because you didn't RTFM. :-) clamdscan passes the file name to clamd, which

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which had worked until sometime ago). So

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Chris
On Monday 18 June 2007 5:04 pm, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Anyone with any ideas? Because you

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
jef moskot wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. Neither is entirely ideal, but we

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Chris wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007 5:04 pm, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ clamdscan phish1.txt /home/chris/phish1.txt: Access denied. ERROR I can't figure out why I keep getting this Access denied error. Anyone with any

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Jan-Pieter Cornet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clamscan has a purpose. As others have also said - YMMV. A very lightly loaded mailserver (~100 msgs/day) shouldn't have a lot of problems with clamscan. At least not with the 0.88.x version. We've been using it, and deliver hundreds of thousands

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not exactly. But I did say that I am using it in production. Now, if it is a good way or not, that is a subjective matter. Not exactly - it is measurable. And it is really bad. No, it _IS_ subjective, and it depends on your available resources.

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not exactly. But I did say that I am using it in production. Now, if it is a good way or not, that is a subjective matter. Not exactly - it is measurable. And it is really bad. No, it _IS_ subjective, and it depends on

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it _IS_ subjective, and it depends on your available resources. And in my opinion, with my resources, it is tolerable. Your milage may vary. Sorry, no. For any particular machine you can measure the performance of each clamav client and you

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread John Rudd
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: I had some problems running clamd on one of the machines a long time ago, and with mimedefang running clamscan is the second option (which had worked

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread John Rudd
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:45:30PM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: if you have sufficient system resources, and are willing to tolerate slow delivery times (up to 4 minutes on my system, with clamscan on 0.90.3 for example). I'm just amazed by all the nitpicking in this