[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Mar 16 22:18:54 EST 2004


On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 mwiater at cablespeed.com wrote:

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

> My thinking is that the virus scanner, or in my case
> scanners, get executed for every email...

If you use a daemonized scanner (like clamd, for instance), the patterns
are only read once at startup, or each time the database is updated.

If you use a command-line scanner, then yes, putting the virus scanner
binary and patterns in a ramdisk will probably help quite a lot.

Regards,

David.



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