--args-file question

Hi Kaneki 

Would you please provide more specification when you say 1 million rows of /home location? What are you pointing towards files or the file which is having 1 million rows of text?

Hi Kaneki 

Would you please provide more specification when you say 1 million rows of /home location? What are you pointing towards files or the file which is having 1 million rows of text?

Hello

in /home/user/public_html

I have about 5 hundred users . Instead to execute a

savscan /home/*/public_html

I wrote a php file which creates a file /tmp/myfile (i.e.) with a list of files modified in latest 24 hours in  /home/*/public_html
and I want check this file using args-file=myfile with the -f and -archive option for each file in the list

savscan --args-file=/tmp/myfile

Since there are various users using webmail or other dynamic script which adds constantly new files , the
generated file /tmp/myfile is huge.

I tested this way using only a part of these users , and I noticed that if the number of files contained in the file grows also
savscan execution seems to be more slower . Is it so ? More large is the file and more slow run savscan --args-file=myfile ?
It seems to became very very slow over 25000 files , so I am considering to use linux split .

Thank you

Hi Kaneki 

I have contacted our Support specialist team to have an exact view on this.

I'll update you once I have any update from their side.

Here is the article for 

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux and Unix: a Comparison chart of savscan and scheduled scan

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/117346

Please search for --args-file= to see more details.