[Mimedefang] performance tuning tips

[Roberto Machado]

Kasperksy (AVP) does this and it works great. There's a daemon which
stays resident and a small client that uses a socket to communicate
with it.

Regards,

Roberto

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, John Coy wrote:
>
> > I'm only using MDF for scanning viruses.  I'm using the
> > message_contains_virus_nai() function to do this.
>
> That's probably what eats up your CPU -- it forks and execs a process to
> do the filtering.
>
> What you need is a virus-scanner which stays resident in memory and
> accepts scan requests over a socket or pipe.  I don't know if NAI
> has this feature, but some commercial virus-scanners do.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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