On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 16:42, Daniel Tiefnig wrote: > Roman Suzi wrote: > > I am not sure why do you worry. Can't see anything unusual. > > So you say it's usual, that clamd uses 14M of memory for about one day, > and then suddenly jumps to 27M? Weird.
Thats not unusual. > > > The number of clamd processes is dynamic except for two watchdogs. > > That's not the problem. I see I wasn't clear on that in my original > mail. The problem is that clamd is using nearly twice as much memory as > it was a minute before... It uses memory to scan files, especially to scan email messages. An email message could make the memory usage jump. Also, the libc memory allocation routines will almost certainly not free the used memory, but keep it in reserve to later usage. -trog
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