[clamav-win32] Re: clamav (w32) slow compared to sosdg

[Dave Warren]

In message <457BD4B8.3010704 at bandsman.co.uk> Nigel Horne
<njh at bandsman.co.uk> wrote:

>There is another, more important, difference which you omitted to include in your equation:  the difference in the engine versions. Recently the engine was upgrade to catch more viruses, unfortunately this improvement included a nasty performance hit, which we are aware of.

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Admittedly my server isn't far from running at capacity, so an upgrade
is already in the works, but the difference in engines means I'm no
longer able to keep up with my mail flow during peak times with ClamAV
running.

I'm currently running both Kaspersky and ClamAV, so my current solution
is to bypass certain classes of messages from ClamAV scanning, this is
helping, but at the end of the day, customers are still noticing the
difference.

For the record, if there is no light at the end of the tunnel, that's
fine, I'll build out the capacity for it -- But if this is a temporary
measure that is expected to revert to previous CPU utilization in the
short term, I'll invest in a higher I/O:CPU ratio.
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