You can also take a look at this thread from 2013: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/clamav/users/59413
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Michael Heuberger < michael.heuber...@binarykitchen.com> wrote: > Yeah I know but I am very busy these days. Either an easy solution or > I'll buy more RAM :( > > On 28/05/14 14:11, Greg Folkert wrote: > > It isn't to hard. You just get to familiarize yourself with apt-source > > and building Debian packages. Not really very difficult. > > > > Of course, it isn't "easy-peasy" ... of course you *COULD* always go > > with a Gentoo setup. > > > > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:47 +1200, Michael Heuberger wrote: > >> Too bad :( > >> > >> On 28/05/14 13:46, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>> No. It's a compile time option. > >>> > >>> Scott K > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:05:33 Michael Heuberger wrote: > >>>> Thanks Kevin > >>>> > >>>> So, how can I set --disable-llvm and --with-system--llvm when I have > >>>> installed clamav via apt-get? > >>>> > >>>> I searched for solutions in Google but found none. Any sugestions? > >>>> > >>>> Any chance I can edit that in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf ? > >>>> > >>>> And are there any other tweaks I could do in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf to > >>>> reduce it's memory footpring? > >>>> > >>>> Cheers > >>>> Michael > >>>> > >>>> On 28/05/14 02:42, Kevin Lin wrote: > >>>>> One way you can reduce the amount of memory that clamav uses is to > specify > >>>>> the "--disable-llvm" flag to clamav configuration line. This flag > tells > >>>>> clamav not to compile the packaged llvm project into libclamav > library and > >>>>> will use up less space with libclamav is loaded into memory. Note > that > >>>>> this > >>>>> means bytecode signatures will be run on the internal interpreter > instead > >>>>> of compiled to JIT using llvm. > >>>>> > >>>>> The downside is that bytecode signatures with run slightly slower on > the > >>>>> clamav interpreter than with llvm JIT. However, bytecodes make up a > fairly > >>>>> small amount of clamav's signatures and, if JIT is desired with a > smaller > >>>>> memory footprint in clamav, you can configure clamav with > >>>>> "--with-system-llvm" to use the system's native llvm. > >>>>> > >>>>> -Kevin > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Michael Heuberger < > >>>>> > >>>>> michael.heuber...@binarykitchen.com> wrote: > >>>>>> Hello everyone > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On my 2GB server clamav uses a lot of memory: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ``` > >>>>>> 3460 clamav 476528 kB /usr/sbin/clamd > >>>>>> ``` > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Are there tips how to tweak `/etc/clamav/clamd.conf` to reduce its > >>>>>> memory usage? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cheers > >>>>>> Michael > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Binary Kitchen > >>>>>> Michael Heuberger > >>>>>> 4c Dunbar Road > >>>>>> Mt Eden > >>>>>> Auckland 1024 > >>>>>> (New Zealand) > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Mobile (text only) ... +64 21 261 89 81 > >>>>>> Email ................ mich...@binarykitchen.com > >>>>>> Website .............. http://www.binarykitchen.com > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > >>>>>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > >>>>>> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > >>>>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > >>>>> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > >>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > >>> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > > -- > > Binary Kitchen > Michael Heuberger > 4c Dunbar Road > Mt Eden > Auckland 1024 > (New Zealand) > > Mobile (text only) ... +64 21 261 89 81 > Email ................ mich...@binarykitchen.com > Website .............. http://www.binarykitchen.com > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
