[clamav-users] clamd cache (was Re: clamscan --disable-cache)

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Dave Sill via clamav-users wrote:
> "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
>> It might be too soon to draw that conclusion.  It's possible that the
>> daemon reloaded its database during your test, and I'd expect that to
>> cause any cached results to be discarded for obvious reasons.
>
> Fair enough. I re-ran the same scan three times after rebooting and got
> the following run times:
>
> 20:46
> 19:37
> 19:18
>
> And the clamd logs show "SelfCheck: Database status OK" every 10 minutes
> but no DB updates.
> ...
> I only have 16 GB RAM on this system ...

Only 4GB on my clamd server.

$ du -sh images/
16G     images/
$ find ./images -type f | wc -l
11586
$ clamdscan images/
...
Time: 12547.333 sec (209 m 7 s)
...
$ clamdscan  images/
...
Time: 1477.782 sec (24 m 37 s)

Trying a bigger directory, this is going to take a while...

$ find ./Personal -type f | wc -l
144191


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73,
Ged.