Re: ClavAV Load Leveled

It's been tested with HA-LVS and clamd listening on CVIP.

On 8/3/07, Isaac Colley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone had any luck load leveling either clamd or clamscan?  ClamAV
> (clamd for example) works fine but only as a single process on one node
> at a time.  I have clamd configured using UNIX domain sockets (not TCP)
> for communication.  CVIP is not configured and all the files being
> scanned reside on the init node.
>
> ClamAV manages it "work queue" by spawning pthreads up to a maximum
> number.  It is my understanding that OpenSSI will migrate threads, but
> its whole process will go with it, essentially meaning many threads of a
> single process cannot be load leveled.
>
> Is this true?  Has anyone had any luck with some type of workaround?
> Would setting up CVIP and configuring clamd to use TCP sockets
> automatically loadlevel clamd?
>
> The the OpenSSI features (http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Features) page says
> that ClamAV has been tested, but I don't know what that entails.
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Colley
> eSoft, Inc
>
>
>
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