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

[Reio Remma]

On 04/09/2019 23:44, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote:
> The database load process reads signatures and uses the data to populate a couple of pseudo-tries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie).  The tries themselves could only be modified by a single thread at a time, with a mutex around each trie.  There might be some performance to be gained by using multiple threads.  I'm not certain.  Definitely a bunch of thread safety code would need to be written.

I guess many of us are just running too old hardware. :)

Here's a comparison between my mail server and identical config running 
in a VM.

Sep  6 09:41:06 mail clamd[31441]: Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Sep  6 09:44:05 mail clamd[31441]: Database correctly reloaded (10741767 
signatures)

Sep  6 09:56:43 vm clamd[2108]: Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Sep  6 09:57:17 vm clamd[2108]: Database correctly reloaded (10742128 
signatures)

Reio