[clamav-users] Squid + ClamAV

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2020-04-01 16:08, Vladislav Kurz via clamav-users wrote:

> Hello,

Thanks for your answer.



> Are you running clamav as daemon?

Sure.



> Is c-icap using the daemon socket (as if runing clamdscan)?

AFAIK it does.
I've got this in its config:
> # Path to the clamd socket, use clamd_local if you use Unix socket or if clamd
> # is listening on an Inet socket, comment clamd_local and set the clamd_ip and
> # clamd_port to the corresponding value.
> clamd_local /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock




> If not it might be spawning clamscan for every downloaded

I see "clamd" using a lot CPU when I surf the web, not a clamscan process.




> Also check if you have enough memory both clamav and squid can eat a lot, so
> check if you are not swapping.

Systems where I'm trying this range from 4 to 64GiB: should be enough.
The one I'm looking at now has 16GiB and 1% swap in use (which is the 
minimum I've ever seen, basically meaning no swap).



  bye & Thanks
	av.