>>Entirely possible. As I recall, clamav-daemon caches the virus definitions in >>RAM in order to minimise startup speed when handling clients.
>>In other words, if you're only scanning for viruses occasionally (e.g. mails >>which have an attachment), you might find switching from "clamdscan" to >>>>"clamscan" and not running the daemon suits your purpose. >>Depending on your system architecture, you could consider running >>"clamdaemon" on a different host, and configuring "clamdscan" to use a TCP >>socket. >>This is particularly beneficial if you have several hosts which >>need to perform scanning as they can all pass their payload to the central >>scanning host, and >>you don't need multiple instances of the daemon. >>YMMV. -- >Thanks for your answer, this machine are running as VPS, so this Server dont >have a lot of memory configured, and running as standalone machine. >Yes i will try to switch to clamscan, but you know this will impact the E-Mail >ScannSpeed or transferspeed? > >Amavis are also like clamd ?, a hungry memory maintainer >Thanks for your update >Mauri
