[clamav-users] ClamAV scan time improvement

[Arnaud Jacques]

Hello,


Le 08/11/2022 à 19:02, Vijay Kumar Kamannavar via clamav-users a écrit :
> Hello Team,
> 
> We are leveraging ClamAV agent for our vm's malware detection.
> 
> we tried to scan a vm with 30GB used space and it took approx 1.30Hrs(we 
> tried to capture certain file extensions to reduce number of files and 
> passed file lists as arguments to clamdclient)
> Note:
> 1. we tried above test with 4 core 8GB vm
> 2. We tried clamdscan as below
> 
> /bin/parallel -j 10 clamdscan -m --fdpass --no-summary --file-list


Why -j 10 if you have only 4 cores ?


If you want to scan /my_path directory and subdirectories, I suggest the 
following :

find /my_path -type f | parallel clamdscan -mi --fdpass --no-summary  {}

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Cordialement / Best regards,

Arnaud Jacques
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