On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:41:39 -0500 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently using clamav 0.67, and I'm seeing clamav taking a long > time scanning files with mostly 0xFFs. > > Normally the time it takes to scan a file is not a problem but once a > while we receive a large mostly white picture, and instead of the > usual minute or so to scan a file, it takes 20+ mins to scan it. > This is happening on both linux on intel and solaris on sparcs. > > Just as a data point, I used clamscan to scan a 1M data file with > random data and it took 3.6 sec, but a 1M file of all 0xFF's took 21 > sec. > > Has anyone else seen this problem?
It seems there are (far) too many signatures that start with ffff and the node [ff][ff] contains too many signatures in the linked list. I will fix that with the next main.cvd update. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Tue Mar 16 09:41:56 CET 2004
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