Will MAXATONCE also help limit it, or does Declude go ahead and decode everything before the prior instances have finished?
Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] TempDir > > > > have a huge ramdisk... ?!?! > > > >How big is big enough ? > >10M ? 50M? 100M ? > > If it is just used for Declude's scanning, it should be large enough to > handle ( (n * max) + overhead ) bytes, where "n" is the maximum number of > E-mails that could be scanned simultaneously (which should be either 30, or > the value of IMail's MaxQueProc entry), and "max" is the maximum size that > an E-mail could be, and "overhead" is anything else that needs to be > accounted for (bytes used by the OS). > > In reality, it depends on the largest file size you would typically get, > and how often large files are transmitted. There isn't an easy answer to > the best size. For most servers, just over 10 megs ought to do (assuming > the largest E-mail to be scanned is around 10 megabytes), because you won't > usually scan multiple E-mails at the same time, and won't usually have > several large files being scanned at the same time. 32 megs or so should > be fairly safe for most domains. > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web > site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .