On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 19:39, Henri van Riel wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to ClamAV and this list and I have the following `problem`. > > I use clamav together with p3scan but that is irrelevant to my > question. I first start the clamd deamon and then the p3scan deamon. > Everything starts just fine. But when I use clamdscan to scan a > directory for instance several new instances of clamd are started, > sometimes up to four new processes/instances. After a while one after > the other terminates by itself except for one. That means I then have > 2 instances of clamd running as deamon... The second process never > terminates but everything seems to work just fine. P3scan works and so > does clamdscan. I'm just wondering why there are two processes...
They aren't processes, they are threads. Clamd spawns new threads to do the actual work, and when a worker thread has been idle for a while, it goes away again. -trog _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
