Changing the Anti-Virus Service Settings
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Change the text boxes in the Settings table as required.
The text boxes are:
- Concurrency Limit: Specifies how many concurrent requests the
anti-virus daemon can service at any given time. The default is the
number of CPUs multiplied by 2.
- Inactive Limit: Specifies the maximum amount of time that a
daemon slot is allowed to be inactive before it is removed and its
memory is freed. The value must be lower than the time set in
Scan Limit to be useful. The default setting
is 2 minutes (120).
- Scan Limit: Specifies the absolute maximum amount of time to wait
for the daemon to scan a message before returning a timeout. The default
is 5 minutes (300).
- Port: Specifies the port used by PureMessage to communicate with the
daemon. The default is local:/tmp/pmx-vscan.sock.
- Reinit Limit: Specifies the maximum number of messages each
anti-virus process may scan before being restarted. Starting a process
has a large overhead compared to the incremental cost of scanning an
additional message. The value '0' means there is no limit, and the
daemon only restarts when it times out or crashes. The default is
1024.
- Queue Limit: Specifies the maximum number of messages to queue
before refusing to accept connections from PureMessage. Increasing this number
too much means the daemon may consume large amounts of memory for its
queue. The value '0' means there is no limit. The default is
4096.
- Respawn Wait: Specifies how long the daemon should wait before
respawning a process that dies unexpectedly. If the process dies without
scanning a message, the daemon waits for this length of time to elapse
before restarting it. The default is 5 minutes
(300).
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Once you have made the required changes, click Save.