Chris de Vidal wanted us to know: >Is our situation that foreign? I was half expecting someone to tell me >"We have a 5TB FTP server and can scan it all under 40 minutes with .25 >extra load average! You just have to do this..."
Most people with stuff that large have a three teir system: 1) AV installed on the desktop, auto-updating virus definitions. This usually implies a commercial AV solution. 2) AV installed on the server, auto-updating virus definitioons, doing on-access scanning only. This usually implies a commercial AV solution. 3) Secondary AV installed on the server, auto-updating virus definitions, doing full system scans on set intervals. This can be a commercial solution but ClamAV fits VERY well into this slot. If the scan is occurring during normal business hours, then yeah, you need to nice the heck out of it to keep it from sucking away performance. If you know a bit about c, you could add a commandline option --delay=x where x is the number of milliseconds to pause between files. Good luck! <12 line signature snipped> -- Regards... Todd There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. --Ed Howdershelt Linux kernel 2.6.11-6mdksmp 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.14, 1.11 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
