On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:40:02PM +0100, G.W. Haywood said: > > Sometimes people have seen this as a result of multiple copies of the > database being loaded. That appears to have been a problem for quite > some time. I think it's clamd which causes it by loading two database > copies into memory, so I don't think that looking at the sizes of the > databases on disc will help. > > Here's a graph of the memory used by clamd on one of my servers: > > http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/clamav-milter-0.9x.gif
I don't have logs that go back that far close to hand, but can you also plot the number of signatures that clamav had loaded at each point? I'd be surprised if there wasn't more of a correlation with that than with version number. There have been some memory management fixups, but overall, my impression is that it's largely correlated with the amount of space it takes to hold a few copies of the databases in RAM. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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