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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:48:44 -0400
From:      Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix?
Message-ID:  <20070215184844.GA24682@dwpc.dwlabs.ca>
In-Reply-To: <cone.1171563142.426523.55347.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:12:22PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Oliver Brandmueller writes:
> 
> >We're using clamav (clamd, together with exim) in our setup. Our setup 
> >consisting of currently four servers assigned to this task is processing 
> >around one million deliveries per day, around 3.5 million rejects in the 
> 
> :-)
> You get less spam than we do.
> We also get around 4 Million emails per day, but only about 500K are 
> accepted. (last I checked.. may be more volume now)
> 
> 
[...trimmed...]
> 
> > Also we use it successfully with libthr instead of libpthred 
> >(through libmap.conf).
> 
> What was the procedure for that? Any pointers to docs appreciated.
> I am looking at /etc/libmap.conf, is it just an entry there?
> Wouldn't that be global? So all programs in the machine will use libthr 
> instead of libpthred?
> 

It can be configured so as not to be global
See libmap.conf(5)

I can share my /etc/libmap.conf file if you would like an example.  It is
non-ClamAv related but does illustrate how to configure using different
libraries for different programs.  I believe I basically using the
/etc/libmap.conf as generously provided by the writer of the port for
the linuxpluginwrapper.

[...trimmed...] 

> I suspsect the issue is FreeBSD's thread support, so your suggested thread 
> library  change may help until we find a process based antivirus (if there 
> is one that works well with FreeBSD). 

There has been much discussion about making the libthr the default threading
library.  

--Duane



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