Have you checked out clamdtop to see what’s being done?

I usually see 1 core maxed on clamd.  It’s a 2012 MacPro, so not a worry for me.

Might want to change from fswatch to just a nightly scan if it’s too hard on the system.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski

TrueNet, Inc.

P: 610-429-8300

From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Kai Amundsen
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 12:23 PM
To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Subject: [clamav-users] Constant CPU Usage

Clamd process seems to be using a lot of CPU. It goes 0% for a few seconds then 100% (full use of one thread) for a few seconds constantly forever. This seems to be eating our users laptop battery noticeably

We just rolled out ClamAV to all of our users (running macOS of varying versions) using MacPorts and these instructions ( https://github.com/essandess/macOS-clamAV ) to all users who are technical enough to check CPU usage are reporting this.

Is this normal? Any way to change/fix it?

Kai Amundsen | 312 775 2407

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