I recently upgraded my Debian server to 'etch', and with it the latest packaged ClamAV - 0.90.2-1~volatile1 from the debian-volatile repository. Also upgraded to kernel 2.6.20.
Since this, I seem to find the memory use of clamd grows and grows. I've seen it up to 175MB before I had to stop and restart it - it's already back up to 82MB a few hours after the restart. It didn't do this with 'sarge', 2.4 kernel, and the earlier ClamAV for Sarge. Is this usage abnormal? I see other remarks on the list about this version, but haven't spotted anything for definite. The machine concered is a 'User mode Linux' virtual machine, and as such is rather tight on memory - 80MB ram + 256MB swap, so this consumption by ClamAV is making it near unusable. I'm often getting socket-timeouts when my exim4 mailer attempts to process email using the clamd socket - quite possibly due to time to page in clamd? I've seen some mention of patches to ClamAV on the list - they sounded more related to high CPU use than memory, but in any case I usually try to stick with Debian packages, rather than building my own. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
