[clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

Steven Morgan smorgan at sourcefire.com
Mon Jun 22 19:19:01 UTC 2015


Hi,

Clamscan uses a single execution thread. Clamd uses multiple threads vi
pthreads and can better take advantage of multicore CPUs.

Steve

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Markus Egg <Markus.Egg at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ?
> I found "clamdscan" with --multiscan but for some reasons
> --multiscan does not work with "clamscan".
>
> Thank you for any pointer.
>
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