I confirmed with our signature management team that the extended time processing daily-25380 is because this change is significantly larger than a standard update.
This update drops 768053 hash-based signatures for malware that is detected by other more efficient logical signatures. The net result will be a leaner database that should load a little faster and take up less memory.
The validation stage when creating the daily had estimated less than 26 minutes for the cdiff to apply. You may be correct that it's much faster on x86 than on Sparc. 3h15m is definitely worse than expected, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Regards,
Micah
Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
On 3/6/19, 9:31 AM, "Pierre Dehaen" <dehaenp@drever.be> wrote:
Yes Micah, it finished while I was checking the computer because of the messages received
on the mailing list.
$ tail -50 /var/log/freshclam.log
...
--------------------------------------
ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 6 11:37:46 2019
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.100.0 Recommended version: 0.101.1
DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
securiteinfo.hdb is up to date (version: custom database)
securiteinfo.ign2 is up to date (version: custom database)
Downloading javascript.ndb [*]
javascript.ndb updated (version: custom database, sigs: 45008)
securiteinfohtml.hdb is up to date (version: custom database)
securiteinfoascii.hdb is up to date (version: custom database)
securiteinfopdf.hdb is up to date (version: custom database)
Downloading spam_marketing.ndb [*]
spam_marketing.ndb updated (version: custom database, sigs: 24199)
main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
Downloading daily-25380.cdiff [100%]
daily.cld updated (version: 25380, sigs: 1503528, f-level: 63, builder: raynman)
bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 328, sigs: 94, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
Database updated (6139078 signatures) from db.be.clamav.net (IP: 104.16.219.84)
Clamd successfully notified about the update.
$ ls -l /var/log/freshclam.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 701634 Mar 6 14:51 /var/log/freshclam.log
It ran from 11:37 to 14:51. It might run faster on x86 computers though.
Pierre
On 6 Mar 2019 at 14:20, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote:
Pierre,
So you're saying it actually did finish after 3 hours, 15 minutes on its own? That is good news
for all of the automated systems, even if this is a potentially terrible bug.
I'm still investigating the cause, and asking our signature management team if they have any
additional details.
Micah
Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
On 3/6/19, 9:06 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of Pierre Dehaen" <clamav-users-
bounces@lists.clamav.net on behalf of dehaenp@drever.be> wrote:
Here too: it took about 3 hours and 15 minutes to calm down (SPARC, Solaris 11,
v0.100.0)... without noticiable error in freshclam.log.
On 6 Mar 2019 at 6:27, J.R. via clamav-users wrote:
> When crontab execs freshclam
> CPU server goes to 100%
> Hanged finishing Downloading daily-25380.cdiff [100%]
Just checked my server and it happened to me too! A little after 5am
central time. :(
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