On Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 at 11:50 PM, Andrew C Aitchison <and...@aitchison.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via clamav-users wrote: > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > ClamAV consumes so much memory that my Postfix service gets killed > > by OOM Killer from time to time. > > > Yes, ClamAV needs 1-2GB RAM to store the database of malware to search for > and double that when it loads an updated database (this doubling can be > avoided but then ClamAV is unavailable while the update is loaded). > > The database of malware could be trimmed by looking for fewer viruses etc. > but I think that would be above your skill level, and it would increase > the chance of something nasty getting past your defences. > > You could try increasing the size of the swap file/partition; > this could make the machine slower some of the time, but might make > the OOM Killer less likely to kick in. > > -- > Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK > and...@aitchison.me.uk I have sufficient physical memory. I have 8 GB of RAM in my VPS. I don't think I need to use swap/virtual memory. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals in Singapore GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems 5th March 2025 Wednesday _______________________________________________ Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
