Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:01:24 -0700 > Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > > > > > With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of > > > data in one minute. > > > > 2gb in one minute, ceterus paribus, means roughly 8.5 hours per > > terabyte. > > > > That's pretty impressive. > > > > How fast are your read operations from disk in general? > > The test was performed on a specially prepared ram disk consisting of > 2048 hardlinks to a 1MB random file. Due to limitations of my desktop > system the card was running in half of its abilities and the > accelerated version of clamscan was nine times faster than a normal one. > On dual CPU servers with a PCI64 slot it's performing way better. > > -- > oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg > \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B > //\ /\ Fri Apr 29 02:19:58 CEST 2005
Hm. Not quite so impressive, then, under these artificial conditions. Still, quite interesting, and I'd like to see stats on a more real-world situation. Kurt _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
