[Mimedefang] uvscan exceedingly slow

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Wed Sep 10 15:53:01 EDT 2003


I didn't think about the delays about, I was thinking inbound only.
However, we did run into this same delay with UVScan and simply deal with it
as we are doing inbound only scanning.

Regards,
KAM

> Thanks for some quick answers !!  Delays of 13 seconds for each mail
> being sent out from our mail clients are indeed unacceptable.
>
> One additional observation:  My Redhat ES2.1 server runs on a 2.0 GHz
> Pentium Xeon (Proliant server), and uvscan incurs a 13 seconds overhead.
> On a Redhat 9 server running on a 450 MHz Pentium-II the real time is
> only 1.5 seconds with 0.15 seconds of overhead on the very same
> quarantined message (copied over).  So there is a 100-fold increase
> in the overhead when running Redhat ES2.1, even disregarding the
> much faster processor :-(




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