[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

[Jon R. Kibler]

mwiater at cablespeed.com wrote:
> 
> Has anybody given thought to moving the virus scanners and
> their pattern files to a ramdisk?

Been there, done that -- but three issues:
  1) You have to mod mimedefang.pl to find the files in the
     correct location.
  2) Only provide performance improvements where virus scanners
     have to reread files for every scan (e.g., helps with
     uvscan, no help for clamd/clamdscan).
  3) You have to provide scripts that update both the RAMDISK
     and master copies of the sigs, plus load the sigs when
     system startup occurs.

Jon
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Jon R. Kibler
Chief Technical Officer
A.S.E.T., Inc.
Charleston, SC  USA
(843) 849-8214




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