On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net> wrote:
> On 03/15/2011 03:26 AM, Pak Ogah wrote:
>>
>> On 15-Mar-11 16:46, Peter Peltonen wrote:
>>>
>>> One qmailtoaster server I am responsible of is doing a RAID rebuild
>>> and disk IO is quite slow. Therefore I thought about disabling ClamAV
>>> and SpamAssassin scanning for time being. Reading
>>> http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Simscan I ended up modifying
>>> simcontrol to look like this:
>>>
>>> :clam=no,spam=no,spam_hits=12
>>>
>>> and issuing /var/qmail/bin/simscanmk -g
>>>
>>> What keeps me puzzled is that I see the process now and then in top
>>> (eating 90 % CPU at times). No idea what it is doing.
>>>
>>> Questions: Can I now just stop clamav with svscan? If it is not
>>> enabled in simcontrol, my toaster shouldn't use it for anything,
>>> right?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Peter
>>>
>> you can
>> touch /var/qmail/supervise/clamd/down
>> service qmail stop
>> sleep 10
>> service qmail stat <= make sure all qmail service stop
>> service qmail start
>>
>> or if you already installed qtp you can
>> qmail-spam stop
>> qmail-clam stop
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
> Also, there was a buggy version of clamav which would eat the cpu. I expect
> that if you upgrade clamav, you'll be fine.
>
> The clamav-toaster package should really be kept up to date as much as
> possible. FWIW, a while ago clamav packages past a certain age (and not all
> that old) quit working entirely. I didn't think that was a good move by the
> clamav folks, but this shows that it not only can but has happened.
Well, I don't need clamav there anyway as there is a another scanner
in between.
I just wanted to confirm that it is okay to shut down clamav and it
won't affect the other toaster parts.
Thanks for your info,
Peter
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