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Subject:    Re: [clamav-users] High freshclam process' CPU usage since last night PDT...
From:       PhiLLip Pi <philpi () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2017-06-08 22:25:40
Message-ID: 4e922b89-fa09-8a51-fb5d-a385bcf10bed () earthlink ! net
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Ah, it is a known issue. Thanks, Al. I will wait. Yeah, this is an issue 
for slow machines like mine. :(


On 6/8/2017 3:19 PM, Al Varnell wrote:
> Phillip,
> 
> Did you see this earlier today?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 05:13 AM, Mark Allan wrote:
> > For some reason, applying the 4MB daily-23454.cdiff file took a really long time, \
> > even on a fast machine - 6 minutes on a 2.6 GHz intel core i7 
> > Curiously, the main-58.cdiff took only a fraction of that time (less than 30 \
> > seconds) to apply, despite being twice the size. 
> > So I'm wondering, when posting a new main.cvd in the future, is there a way to \
> > decrease the size of the daily cdiff files by having more of them, or would that \
> > not help with the processing time?  Is there any way to do it without making it \
> > look like freshclam has hung? 
> > Mark
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:02 PM, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > My updated 64-bit Debian's stable/Jessie's top shows "4959 clamav    20  0  \
> > 106684  22856  12836 R 100.0  1.1   0:58.70 freshclam". 
> > Its /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log's ending show:
> > Thu Jun  8 14:43:18 2017 -> --------------------------------------
> > Thu Jun  8 14:43:18 2017 -> freshclam daemon 0.99.2 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, \
> > CPU: x86_64) Thu Jun  8 14:43:18 2017 -> ClamAV update process started at Thu Jun \
> > 8 14:43:18 2017 Thu Jun  8 14:43:19 2017 -> main.cld is up to date (version: 58, \
> > sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) Thu Jun  8 14:43:22 2017 -> \
> > Downloading daily-23454.cdiff [100%] 
> > I had to stop clamav-freshclam (via systemctl): clamav-freshclam.service to get \
> > my CPU back with "sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop" command. Log shows: Thu \
> > Jun  8 14:45:02 2017 -> Update process terminated 
> > It had been like this since last night PDT. Is it just me or are others having \
> > this issue too? 
> > Thank you in advance. :)
> 
> -Al-
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