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

Ralph Seichter abbot at monksofcool.net
Fri Sep 13 18:40:51 UTC 2019


* Micah Snyder via clamav-users:

> [ClamAV] would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for
> requests and fork into the background so as not to block the boot
> process.

To me, slowing down the boot process is just the (admittedly annoying)
symptom of an underlying ClamAV issue. Based on the delays that we have
seen over the past months, I'd say that ClamAV's database handling does
not scale well enough, and I think that's what needs fixing.

-Ralph



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