Maybe it’s the initial setup, but attempting to run freshclam on my 512MB ubuntu AWS instance consistently failed… I forget the error exactly, but from what I read on other posts, was related to memory shortages. I checked for other processes the time, and clamd was not in the list.
> On Mar 5, 2021, at 10:52 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Clamav-Win32 > <clamav-wi...@subscriptions.pizzolato.net> wrote: > > I've never seen any problem with freshclam's memory footprint. > > On my Windows box, freshclam runs taking up all of 2.6MB. > > Clamd, on the other hand sucks down 1.4GB. > > There is no need to run clamd for the situation you are dealing with. > > On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 10:45 AM, Joel Esler wrote: >> My current suggestion is setup Freshclam to do the initial update. >> >> Directly downloading the raw cld files is no longer scalable. >> >>> On Mar 5, 2021, at 1:29 PM, Ritch Parker <ri...@mixxum.com> wrote: >>> >>> I originally tried to setup Freshclam but found that, like the scan, it >> consumes a large amount of memory. I have an instance large enough to run >> the scans, but it is on an internal subnet without external access… but >> downloading files takes almost no memory, so to save some cost I just setup >> a small instance on the public subnet to download the daily file… doing a >> once >> every four hour check, then move the file to the larger instance. Was going >> to update further to do a head request, but then it stopped working :( >> ...Really was just looking for an update solution that could be run with a >> very >> small amount of memory and resources and this seemed to be the best fit. >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 5, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users <clamav- >> us...@lists.clamav.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you using Freshclam to download the updates? >>>> >>>>> On Mar 5, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Ritch Parker <ri...@mixxum.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Yesterday, for some reason, all my AWS VMs receive a 403 Forbidden >> response from clamav when attempting to pull the latest cvd files. I’ve >> tried >> from two different instances, from a lambda, and then from my local >> machine. All result in the same response: >>>>> >>>>> $ wget http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd >>>>> --2021-03-05 09:47:46-- http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd >>>>> Resolving database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)... >>>>> 104.16.218.84, 104.16.219.84 Connecting to database.clamav.net >> (database.clamav.net)|104.16.218.84|:80... connected. >>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden >>>>> 2021-03-05 09:47:48 ERROR 403: Forbidden. >>>>> >>>>> Not sure how I can resolve this. Is this temporary? I been checking once >> every 4 hours and no change. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> clamav-users mailing list >>>>> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >>>>> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>>>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>>>> >>>>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> clamav-users mailing list >>>> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >>>> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >>>> >>>> >>>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>>> >>>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> clamav-users mailing list >> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >> >> >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
