On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > it's unacceptable having a clamd process which wastes nearly 1 GB of RAM > hanging around when he don't catch anything
For once I have to agree.. My stats: ClamAV - 10 million sigs (includes most sanesecurity stuff) Sophos - 13 million sigs # /usr/bin/time -f '\t%E real, \t%M kBmem' /usr/local/clamav/bin/clamscan /etc/hosts <snip> 0:28.18 real, 1096492 kBmem # /usr/bin/time -f '\t%E real, \t%M kBmem' /opt/sophos-av/bin/savscan /etc/hosts <snip> 0:05.99 real, 231504 kBmem Perhaps ClamAV devs should start innovating a little on how to handle all the sigs, instead of keeping bloating a glorified in-memory hash-database. ;-D Jeez one could probably simply precompile a CDB database from all the hashes and dramatically reduce memory usage, probably wouldn't even slow down much.. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml