Jeffrey Rice wrote: > Hello, > Is there any way to reduce/control the memory use of clamd? I'm running > a co-hosted VPS, so memory is at a premium. I have 256 Mb of RAM on the > machine, and clamd is taking 95Mb of virtual, and has a 65Mb resident > footprint! That seems excessive, to say the least! I tried compiling > from source and excluding the options I don't need, but it had no > noticeable effect. Are there any options that exist to get clamd > running on systems with limited memory? > > Is it really necessary for clamd to grab this much RAM? It seems that > unless one has significant amounts of memory to devout to clamd, then it > is out of reach. This is a shame, since it's such a great program! > > Jeff
You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should be shackled with 256 meg of memory. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
