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Goverp
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 Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:12 pm Post subject: Clamd takes 55s loading signatures |
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My apologies if this is the wrong forum - I don't know if clamav performance counts as security.
Is my experience - that clamd takes an age to start - typical?
It's standard Gentoo setup, (OpenRc, 4-cpu AMD box running at 1.6 GHz, 6 Gb RAM, files on 4 disk RAID 5 array) showing no performance issues in general. But during startup, I get messages about waiting for clamd to start, and it times out. Looking at /var/log/clamav/clamd.log, it takes about 55 seconds to load 6568420 signatures, which seems pretty damn slow.
I can find nothing on the web, apart from some old bugs in 2007, and nothing in clamav's bugzilla.
FWIW,
app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4-r1
USE="bzip2 iconv ipv6 -clamdtop -libressl -metadata-analysis-api -milter (-selinux) -static-libs {-test} (-uclibc)"
Perhaps there are faster alternatives.
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bunder
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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This is from an i7 920 but confined to a single cpu.
| Code: | Mon Jul 9 17:48:10 2018 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Mon Jul 9 17:48:34 2018 -> Database correctly reloaded (6568737 signatures)
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If I had to guess, your single thread speed is making it slow.
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Fitzcarraldo
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For comparison, my laptop with Intel Core i7-4810MQ (2.80GHz) 6MB and 16 GB RAM takes around 11 seconds to load the ClamAV DB:
| Code: | Mon Jul 9 19:36:24 2018 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Mon Jul 9 19:36:35 2018 -> Database correctly reloaded (6568420 signatures) |
| Code: | $ eix -I clamav
[I] app-antivirus/clamav
Available versions: 0.99.4-r1 ~0.100.0 {bzip2 clamdtop doc iconv ipv6 libressl metadata-analysis-api milter selinux static-libs system-libmspack test uclibc}
Installed versions: 0.99.4-r1(02:05:45 03/04/18)(bzip2 clamdtop iconv ipv6 -libressl -metadata-analysis-api -milter -selinux -static-libs -test -uclibc)
Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/
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Goverp
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Thanks for the numbers. From that it looks like I just ignore it; certainly not worth upgrading my system just for clamav! I think it's only ever flagged up false-positive hits for PUAs ("Possibly Unwanted Applications").
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