Re: ClavAV Load Leveled

If there's no better solution, you could use nclamd.  It forks instead of
spawning threads.  I found it to therefore be more robust, but it should also
allow full independant migration in this case.

-Andy

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Isaac Colley 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.

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