[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

[Mark Wiater]

Thanks John.

When you were there, did you measure performance when using a command
line scanner? Do you know if the performance benefit warrants the three
issues?

1. could be worth the effort depending on your findings above?

2. I'm using both trend command line and mcafee command line, 

3. I've already got a script pulling the sigs from a central machine,
shouldn't be a problem to drop them on the ramdisk too.

Really curious about your findings,

Thanks

Mark

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:04, Jon R. Kibler wrote:
> 
> 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.