Re: [AMaViS-user] Antivirus programs?

From: Bill Landry <bill(at)inetmsg.com>
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 22:48:59 EDT

Clifton Royston wrote the following on 10/10/2007 5:20 PM -0800:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:07:52PM -0400, Adam65535 wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/07, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've never yet seen clamd take anything close to that on emails. I
>>> have to add SpamAssassin to the process to get anything close to that
>>> kind of delay.
>>>
>>> As a quick test, I ran clamdscan against sample-nonspam.txt (that came
>>> with SpamAssassin some time back) and it took 0.015s.
>>>
>>> Now, clamscan, that took 2.6s for the same scan (f-prot took 0.3s,
>>> bitdefender a mind blowing 6.3).
>>>
>>>
>> Well the timings I did locally on that simple email confirm what everyone
>> else has been stating. Uvscan is slower than clamd. Either I have been
>> transposing these two timing all this time or one of the clamav/clamd
>> updates improved things. Going by everyone comments it sure seems like I
>> have been transposing these numbers :/.
>>
>
> It might be something of both; there was also one of the clamav updates
> in the past year which speeded daemon mode up tremendously, IME.
>
> -- Clifton
>
>

I thought the update had to do with how long it took clamd to load its signature file upon startup. I haven't seen any changes in clamd scan times once the signature files are initially loaded.

Bill

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