Re: clamav eating memory
On 13/02/2023 14:11, Maurizio Caloro
wrote:
hello Debian group
here iam running Debian 10.13, clamav
0.103.7+dfsg-0+deb10u1
but it's this possible
that clamav-daemon use 1.2G memory?
Entirely possible. As I recall, clamav-daemon caches the virus
definitions in RAM in order to minimise startup speed when
handling clients.
In other words, if you're only scanning for viruses occasionally
(e.g. mails which have an attachment), you might find switching
from "clamdscan" to "clamscan" and not running the daemon suits
your purpose.
try to punish little without getting any
negative effects.
try to enclose, but after 4-5h the
mailserver will freez/break
Depending on your system architecture, you could consider running
"clamdaemon" on a different host, and configuring "clamdscan" to
use a TCP socket. This is particularly beneficial if you have
several hosts which need to perform scanning as they can all pass
their payload to the central scanning host, and you don't need
multiple instances of the daemon.
YMMV.
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