On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 09:49:42PM -0400, Paul Kosinski wrote: > 3. With regard to reducing the delay when a new signature set is loaded: > > I don't know the internals of ClamAV, but it seems that it ought to be > possible to restructure it to overlap (in a different thread) the > loading of signatures into memory with the running of the clamd scan > engine. Then, when new signatures have been loaded, a simple pointer > swap or three (mutexed, of course) would cause subsequent scans to use > the new signatures. After the swap, the memory for the old signatures > would be released by the loader thread. This would take more memory > during signature update, but it might be a worthwhile option.
Good luck getting it implemented, such patch has been hanging around for 4 years, of course the problem has been apparent for much longer. I guess ClamAV developers consider it's normal for a service to hang for minutes occasionally. https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979 _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
