[clamav-users] How to abort a scan

[Steven Morgan]

Hi Chaitanya,

You can send the SHUTDOWN command to terminate clamd, Other than that, once
the scanning engine is passed a scan request, it needs to complete so that
system resources are properly released. There also some clamd configuration
parameters to limit the amount of scanning (see MaxScansize, MaxFilesize,
MaxFiles, MaxRecursion). These may reduce the amount of resources.

Hope this helps,

Steve