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Clamav takes a long time to start

root@rewcitestjessie1:~# systemctl status clamav-daemon
● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Fri 2015-12-04 00:58:55 UTC; 10min ago
     Docs: man:clamd(8)
           man:clamd.conf(5)
           http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/doc/
 Main PID: 22118 (code=killed, signal=KILL)

Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: Portable Executable support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: ELF support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: Mail files support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: OLE2 support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: PDF support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: SWF support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: HTML support enabled.
Dec 04 00:57:25 rewcitestjessie1 clamd[22118]: Self checking every 3600 seconds.
Dec 04 00:58:55 rewcitestjessie1 systemd[1]: clamav-daemon.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Dec 04 00:58:55 rewcitestjessie1 systemd[1]: Unit clamav-daemon.service entered failed state.
root@rewcitestjessie1:~# logout

(from redmine: created on 2015-12-04, closed on 2016-03-17, relates #7794 (closed))