ClamAV hogging resources

Hey all,

I set up AMP per the Linode guide, and also a mail server with Clam and Spamassassin. Every couple days, my clamd process will go all gangbusters, using up all the CPU and a sizeable chunk of RAM. The only thing so far I've found that allviates the issue is by restarting Apache. I don't run the Apache module mod_clamav (? exact name escapes me), …but anything else you guys can think of to check? I can post logs, etc…I'm just on my phone at the moment though.

Thanks

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If this is a personal mailserver, then I'd suggest dropping ClamAV. Do virus scanning on your local workstation. (You probably already do….)

ClamAV adds a huge resource load with minimal benefit. It's detection rate isn't great; good spam filtering will catch many virus-infected message; your MTA can be configured to reject mail with suspicious attachments (e.g. .bat, .exe).

Good call. Yea, it's a small user base and the ROI for server based virus scanning is low. I just disabled it. Thanks!

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