[clamav-users] problem reading socket while updating database

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>> Jingo Administrator wrote:
>>> Already more than a week ago I posted my first question to the list. I
>>> must admit I'm a bit disappointed that nobody responds. Is it that I
>>> asked a silly question? Or is the issue just to hard to solve and just
>>> nobody wants to burn his fingers on it?

>On 07/07/2015 10:31 PM, Kris Deugau wrote:
>> It's like more a case of "this is nothing new";  clamd has IIRC always
>> gone nonresponsive when reloading the signatures, and adding gobs of
>> third-party sigs doesn't help speed things up.

On 08.07.15 00:25, Jingo Administrator wrote:
>I know but the 3rd-party sigs aren't made for nothing and it should be
>possible to use them without a problem if one wants to

is is possible. It just slows down loading the database.

>> There was a suggestion at one point for clamd to do the reload in
>> parallel with continuing to process with the previous loaded set of
>> signatures, but that would require at least double the RAM usage
>> periodically, and there have also been ongoing grumbles about clam's
>> memory usage - any change that would cause clamd to periodically double
>> its RAM usage would seriously upset some people who run it on low-memory
>> systems.

>Maybe it would be an option to let the user decide, a configurable
>option could be a solution for every kind of user

I agree. And as always, having faster CPU and more (faster) memory helps nearly
everywhere. It could be imho even turned on by default, on with low RAM
could admins turn it off.

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