On Wed, November 29, 2006 5:01 pm, Tom Samplonius said: > I don't know if that is accurate. clamd seems completely CPU bound. I > also don't know why additional threads would use a lot of extra memory, > as clamd seems to just stream data from the files it is caching. > > And I don't see it in practice either. clamd with MaxThreads uses about > 50MB resident, and clamd with MaxThreads of 10 is about 48MB. The > difference is so small, that is probably just local thread storage.
I'll admit I'm not 100% sure it is accurate either: I know it was the advice normally given for _one_ of the mail-filter mailing lists I'm on, but I can't remember which one... I was actually hoping to just bring some more attention to your question by offering my best answer, even if it isn't _the_ best answer. Usually that suffices to get the people who really know out of the woodwork. (My experience on mailing lists is that if a question isn't answered in about a day it will get forgotten.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html