Re: Time taken to complete scan recently doubled

--On 28 July 2025 16:33 -0700 Daniel Sotirhos via clamav-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Starting July 25th we've seen the time taken to complete a scan of our
> system double, jumping from 15 hours up to 34. We haven't changed the
> system's configuration, and the number of files scanned and total size has
> remained relatively constant.

fwiw - We've seen similar here. We do a lot of ad-hoc scans of files etc.

> The increase in scan time correlates with an update of the daily database
> from version 27709 to 27710.

Since around this change we've noticed a lot of latency on systems ahead of 
clamav - which seems to be caused by scans slowing down - and massively 
increased load averages on the scanning machines themselves :(

-Karl
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