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Robert S
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:08 am Post subject: clamav-milter startup obscenely slow |
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| Quote: | # time /etc/init.d/clamd start
* Starting clamd ...
Running as user clamav (UID 101, GID 407) [ ok ]
* Starting freshclam ... [ ok ]
* Starting clamav-milter ...
Loaded ClamAV 0.90.3/3424/Fri Jun 15 11:30:29 2007ClamAV: Protecting against 23 viruses [ ok ]
real 1m57.290s
user 0m57.892s
sys 0m0.640s
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Could somebody explain this incredibly slow startup?
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steveb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| It is the clamav-milter. The loading of this beast takes ages. I don't know why it takes so long for you where you only have patterns for 23 virus. On my setup I have more then 200'000 patterns and it takes ages. |
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Robert S
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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I had my terminal set up funny - here's the real answer:
| Quote: | # time /etc/init.d/clamd start
* Starting clamd ...
Running as user clamav (UID 101, GID 407) [ ok ]
* Starting freshclam ... [ ok ]
* Starting clamav-milter ... [ ok ]
ClamAV 0.90.3/3426/Fri Jun 15 22:02:54 2007
ClamAV: Protecting against 230200 viruses
real 1m59.114s
user 0m57.968s
sys 0m0.604s |
There doesn't seem to be anything on Goog about this. I've got a debian box that gives an equally slow startup, though it starts in the background and I don't have to wait for it. Maybe I should head for the clamav NG. |
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FirefighterBlu3
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Where do you get your sig list that is nearly double mine?
ClamAV update process started at Mon Jun 18 01:22:00 2007
main.cvd is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, builder: sven)
Downloading daily-3454.cdiff [100%]
daily.inc updated (version: 3454, sigs: 23292, f-level: 16, builder: arnaud)
Database updated (127792 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 64.142.100.50)
Thanks 
-david |
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Robert S
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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You're right - this is in my syslog:
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Jun 18 17:57:49 mypc freshclam[8519]: Received signal: wake up
Jun 18 17:57:49 mypc freshclam[8519]: ClamAV update process started at Mon Jun 18 17:57:49 2007
Jun 18 17:57:49 mypc freshclam[8519]: main.inc is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, builder: sven)
Jun 18 17:57:54 mypc freshclam[8519]: Downloading daily-3454.cdiff [100%]
Jun 18 17:57:54 mypc freshclam[8519]: daily.inc updated (version: 3454, sigs: 23292, f-level: 16, builder: arnaud)
Jun 18 17:57:54 mypc freshclam[8519]: Database updated (127792 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 203.16.234.78)
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The other number came off my startup message.
Does your clamav-milter start this slowly? There seem to be a lot of messages on the clamav-users mailing list about slow performance - but I can't see anything specifically about clamav-milter - except my question which has remained unanswered. |
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FirefighterBlu3
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Silly slow ... it's painful. It takes almost two minutes to load on this system. |
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Robert S
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steveb
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool! Because of the startup time and of instability issues I currently switched away from ClamAV. But 0.91 may get me back again |
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Robert S
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| What instability issues? I haven't run into any such things (admittedly I use a very low volume mailserver). |
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steveb
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Robert S wrote: | | What instability issues? I haven't run into any such things (admittedly I use a very low volume mailserver). |
I have a high volume mail server (over 100 virtual domains). ClamAV is a instable beast. Either the milter crashes or the damn daemon goes away. I hate it! Really. I don't care if it takes some time to start but I want this beast to run as stable as possible. But it does not.
Using it on the command line is okay. It works. But as soon as you start to use the milter or the daemon and you send constantly mails to check, then the thing will soon or later crash. |
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