Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-04 Thread Julio Canto
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Recall that I was asking the list recently how to deal with getting 400 MB a day of the zafi.b virus in my mailbox. I can filter out my mailbox with a procmail script, followed by using clamscan and procmail, but my hosting service isn't yet able to do it for me. It

[Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Recall that I was asking the list recently how to deal with getting 400 MB a day of the zafi.b virus in my mailbox. I can filter out my mailbox with a procmail script, followed by using clamscan and procmail, but my hosting service isn't yet able to do it for me. It turns out that they had

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Recall that I was asking the list recently how to deal with getting 400 MB a day of the zafi.b virus in my mailbox. I can filter out my mailbox with a procmail script, followed by using clamscan and procmail, but my hosting service isn't yet able to do it for me. It

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
Michael D. Crawford wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way to filter out the most obvious viruses without using very much CPU time, so that the processing required to scan all the remaining messages with clamav wouldn't be so great? To the clamav devel team: how does the scanner determine

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that they had clamav working in their email processor for a little while, but had to disable it because it used so much CPU time that the host wasn't able to keep up with its load. Ironically, I

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 12:00 am, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that they had clamav working in their email processor for a little while, but had to disable it because it used so much CPU time that the

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Cody Baker wrote: I would like to append to this that, cheap boxes are good, but they should be cheap boxes with fast harddrives, or some type of memory file system scheme. My experience has been that a fast hard drive will drastically increase the scanning performance. And as mentioned

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 at 14:40:24 -0700, Michael D. Crawford wrote: [...] It turns out that they had clamav working in their email processor for a little while, but had to disable it because it used so much CPU time that the host wasn't able to keep up with its load. As it has been already

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I think that you should get more details about their setup and then you can search documentation and mailing lists of those particular programs. I don't know how they had it set up. I'll ask. I don't normally do any kind of administration of the hosting service's server. I'm just trying