On 17/10/2019 16:51, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Vladislav Kurz via clamav-users wrote: > >> So the question is - what would be easier to code? >> - reloading in background thread >> - reloading limited to new files > > It is not clear to me that the latter suggestion is feasible, but... > > 1. Reload in a separate thread was first coded about six years ago. > > 2. After other, more recent discussions on this list some weeks ago, > I provided a patch for the current version of clamd, using that > original code as a basis. Yet more recently, one of the ClamAV > developers provided a similar patch. Both are freely available. > > 3. I've been running the patched code without issue for months.
Oh great. Thank you Ged for writing and testing it. I apologise for not noticing that these patch is already done. Is there anything blocking this patch from being accepted ? I'm noticing clamav-reload related timeouts on more and more (mostly older or low-end) servers, which were running just fine a year or two ago. -- Best regards Vladislav Kurz _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml