i'm a newbie with ClamAv.

I've been using it for a few years with MailScanner using the 'wrapper' method. but lately that has proven to be very slow. I think it may be due to ClamAv engine startup time, everytime MailScanner calls on it. a run of 'Time MailScanner --lint' shows a 3 minute run time to scan the eicar test virus?

So i want o install ClamAV as a service and point MailScanner to the clamd.scoket in the hopes that it would reduce scan times.

I'm running into an issue, however; 

I've installed CalmAv following the online documentation and configured the clamd.service accordingly.

however, when i try to start the service, the clamd process shoots up to 100% cpu utilization and appears to hang-crash-restart-repeat. Attached is the clamd.service log

I attempted to fix the two errors seen at Sun Apr 7 11:56 by creating the directories / files and setting the appropriate ownership. 

any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

regards

Sebastiano