[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

Chris Myers chris at by-design.net
Tue Mar 16 19:45:48 EST 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mwiater at cablespeed.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux


> Has anybody given thought to moving the virus scanners and
> their pattern files to a ramdisk?

Better yet, use daemonized scanners (clamd, sophie, trophie, File::Scan
[it's part of the mimedefang process], ...).  The time (I/O _and_ CPU) to
load a scanner program and the signature files can be 10x-100x as long as it
takes to actually scan the file.

Chris Myers
Networks By Design




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