[clamav-users] Duplicate database, 525 minutes to complete, >90% CPU

Gian Carlo Stagni gcstagni at keynes.scuole.bo.it
Tue May 21 10:36:47 UTC 2019


Il 2019-05-21 2:08 Clark Dunson via clamav-users ha scritto:

> Hello;  
> 
> Running for 525 minutes at >90% CPU seems not good.  Causes noticeable delay in command line activity for all users. 
> 
> We've got this cronjob: 
> 
> 30 1 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam 2>&1 && /usr/bin/clamscan -o -i -r --quiet / | mail -s "Clam AV Scan Results for $(hostname -s)" itdept at domain.com

It looks like you are scanning the whole the system ("/"), thus
including "/dev", "/proc"... 
I believe this may result a hard work 

Obviously you can exclude any apparent hardware failure, can't you? 

Bye, 

Gian Carlo
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