[clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

Thomas Barth tbarth at txbweb.de
Thu Sep 5 06:52:06 UTC 2019


Am 2019-09-05 00:30, schrieb G.W. Haywood via clamav-users:

> The database load times are a couple of orders of magnitude shorter
> than the database update periods.  It makes no sense to try to make
> the load times shorter when they can already be done by a separate
> thread, while scanning continues, if necessary, in another thread.
> 

Yes, for me this is a big bug. It even ruins my mailserver. For legal 
reasons I ve set up my mailservers to scan emails in realtime for years. 
No store & forward! It refuses bad emails during a connection. Two weeks 
ago I installed mailservers with new debian 10. On these new servers 
Clamav reloads the database every two hours. It takes up to two minutes, 
clamav blockes everything and my boss has the talent to send an email 
whenever the databases are loaded. He got already upset about his email 
client getting a timeout. On my older servers with debian 9 Clamav 
loaded the databases with fewer signatures once a day only! Ok, it s 
cool to have better security now. But I would like to disable the 
loadings during normal business time.

Please, where can I change the interval value or times for loading the 
databases?



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