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

[Reio Remma]

On 07.09.2019 22:03, Robert M. Stockmann via clamav-users wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Reio Remma via clamav-users wrote:
>>>>> 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 ...
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 ...
>>
> Why everyone needs two minutes for this task, independent from which
> hardware is used, is a puzzle to me. Anyone who has the clamd .cvd
> files loaded on a fast SSD storage ?

My original point was that its heavily CPU bound.

As you can see from the logs I initally posted the speed difference 
between a CPU from 2005 and 2019 is 6 times (3 minutes vs 30 seconds).

Good luck,
Reio