Topic: clamscan high cpu usage for a long time

[Bozely]

Currently running SME 7.6 and have been looking at the results of top and noticed clamscan is using an awful lot of CPU and seems to have been running for hours, is there anyway of checking the progress of clamscan? Is this sort of usage normal, it's not something i've picked up on previously.

Code: [Select]

top - 09:37:38 up 1 day, 31 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.38, 1.42, 1.43
Tasks: 320 total,   2 running, 318 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.0% us,  7.3% sy, 79.5% ni,  0.0% id, 10.9% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1553276k total,  1517952k used,    35324k free,    75068k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,      208k used,  2031400k free,   635512k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21790 root      33  10  132m 125m 1752 R 85.2  8.3 469:22.69 clamscan
 5313 squid     15   0 24508  19m 1776 S  1.3  1.3   3:25.58 squid
23053 root      17   0  3032 1164  780 R  1.0  0.1   0:00.47 top


Thanks.

[Bozely]

Just some additional info, I'm running 2GB RAM, P4 Processor and 1TB HDs in Raid 1 config.

[CharlieBrady]

is there anyway of checking the progress of clamscan?

Look in its log file.

You do expect it to run for a very long time, and accumulate a lot of CPU usage. It should only use a significant proportion of current CPU usage if it is active scanning files - either via email or scanning files in i-bays via cron job.