Gordan Bobic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone explain why clamd 0.95.3 might use 190MB of RAM after 5
> days of light usage (few hundred emails)? It is the single biggest
> process on my mail servers, and I'm not convinced it's size is
> reasonably justifiable. The database files under /var/lib/clamav use
> about 70MB. So, even assuming this is kept in memory at all times,
> where does the other 120MB come from?

Maybe when the database is reloaded?  I don't know clamd that well, but
I suspect it'll probably have two copies of the database in core during
reload. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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