Hi Val, Thank you for your quick attention to this issue. We have observed the scan duration greatly improve, lowering to nearly pre-spike levels.
Jul 22 01:37:15 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 49262.080 sec (821 m 2 s) Jul 22 20:50:12 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 53402.376 sec (890 m 2 s) Jul 23 11:56:33 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 54366.778 sec (906 m 6 s) Jul 24 03:24:17 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 55648.695 sec (927 m 28 s) Jul 24 18:42:14 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 55075.211 sec (917 m 55 s) Jul 25 10:04:33 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 55323.970 sec (922 m 3 s) Jul 26 17:12:09 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 112041.332 sec (1867 m 21 s) Jul 27 23:38:15 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 109551.042 sec (1825 m 51 s) Jul 29 06:20:50 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 110540.360 sec (1842 m 20 s) Jul 31 11:16:36 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 90973.431 sec (1516 m 13 s) Aug 1 04:05:30 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 60518.857 sec (1008 m 38 s) Aug 1 20:46:51 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 60079.482 sec (1001 m 19 s) Aug 2 13:42:39 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 60933.142 sec (1015 m 33 s) Aug 3 05:22:35 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 56381.462 sec (939 m 41 s) Aug 3 20:55:49 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 55993.351 sec (933 m 13 s) Aug 4 12:33:42 ip-172-21-0-99 docker: clamscan: Time: 56258.657 sec (937 m 38 s) Cheers! -daniel On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM Val Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all for reporting scan time issues with the recent update. We are > working to reduce the scan time caused by the recent signature update. > > Sorry for the delayed response. I actually thought I'd clicked send on > this. > > Best, > Val > > > Val Snyder (she/they) > ClamAV Development > Talos > Cisco Systems, Inc. > ------------------------------ > *From:* clamav-users <[email protected]> on behalf of > Steve Basford via clamav-users <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2025 10:24 AM > *To:* ClamAV users ML <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Steve Basford <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [clamav-users] Time taken to complete scan recently doubled > > On 29 July 2025 10:58:51 Mark Allan via clamav-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > We're seeing the same thing here. > > We mirror the DB for ClamXAV users but we do a Mac-specific FP test first > which usually takes around 3.5 hours on a fast Mac. > > Daily DB version 27709 took 3 hours 20 minutes whereas version 27710 took > 12 hours 46 minutes > > > Only to add...Lots of sigs added in 22710... > > https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-virusdb/2025-July/009095.html > > > Mark > > On 29 Jul 2025, at 9:22 am, Karl Pielorz via clamav-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > --On 28 July 2025 16:33 -0700 Daniel Sotirhos via clamav-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > Starting July 25th we've seen the time taken to complete a scan of our > system double, jumping from 15 hours up to 34. We haven't changed the > system's configuration, and the number of files scanned and total size has > remained relatively constant. > > > fwiw - We've seen similar here. We do a lot of ad-hoc scans of files etc. > > The increase in scan time correlates with an update of the daily database > from version 27709 to 27710. > > > Since around this change we've noticed a lot of latency on systems ahead > of clamav - which seems to be caused by scans slowing down - and massively > increased load averages on the scanning machines themselves :( > > -Karl > _______________________________________________ > > Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat > > > _______________________________________________ > > Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat > > > > Cheers, > > Steve > Twitter: @sanesecurity > _______________________________________________ > > Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat >
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