I am testing clamd on unix (solaris actually) and my test involves streaming several thousand files to the daemon via a number of threads and collecting response information.

I notice that, even when I increase the thread count in the clamd.conf, the CPU utilization on my Solaris machine is low. This suggests to me that the clam daemon is self throttling. Perhaps this was done as a response to previous problems with high utilisation? Is there any way that I can increase CPU utilisation?

This is probably a question to ask of the Clam AV people, as this is the ClamWin forum, a separate project. Clam AV is used on Linux machines, but it does furnish the scan engine and signatures for ClamWin, which is used on Windows machines. ClamWin does not used clamd, as it uses clamscan.

Regards,