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AW: clamav eating 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.

>>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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>Thanks for your answer, this machine are running as VPS, so this Server dont have a lot of memory configured, and running as standalone machine.

>Yes i will try to switch to clamscan, but you know this will impact the E-Mail ScannSpeed or transferspeed?

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>Amavis are also like clamd ?, a hungry memory maintainer

>Thanks for your update

>Mauri

 

 


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