Does clamd scan drives?

henningl · Unread post by **henningl** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:40 am

Okey, this one is probably a stupid question, but anyways; Does clamd scan disk read and writes? Like window antivirus does? Or only email?

I'm having troubles with disk throughput of more than 2 Mbyte/sec causing loads > 20, and are trying to figure out whats the culprit.

Centos 4, 2x160GB SATA drives in software RAID.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:30 am

I don't know if it's possible, but at least it doesn't by default. Try top to see what's causing the load.

henningl · Unread post by **henningl** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:06 pm

there's no cpu-intensive processes, just 90-95% iddle cpu and loads of io-wait.

faris · Unread post by **faris** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:31 am

Could the raid array have gone bad? That might be what's causing the iowaits and therefore the high load?

I'm assuming it only just started - or has it been like this all the time?

Faris.

Unread post by **scott** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:41 am

check dmesg to see if you're getting any errors from the disks too