Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> 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. >>> So... no chance of running clamav properly with exim4 and spamassisn on a >>> Linksys NSLU2 running Debian then? >> Unless you have some way to limit the total number of connections, threads, >> file >> size, size of pattern files, and size of archives you scan I'd say you're >> going to be >> frustrated squeezing this functionality into that class of machine. On a bad >> virus >> day clamd including all its LWP's can get pretty big. I'd be real tempted to >> farm out >> this function to a capable server via tcp/ip connections. > > Of course it entirely depends on the load. I'm running perfectly fine > Mimedefang, ClamAV, SA, Mysql, Bind and the whole lot on a 256MB VPS for a > few domains. There are only few messages an hour that need to be fully > processed, rest is whitelisted or blocked directly. There is capability for > lot more.
The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build are build to handle estimated worst case loads. Limited resource systems are by default configured to handle very little. That may not be a problem. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
