Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:53:54PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Henrik Krohns wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build are build to handle esti

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build >> are >> build to handle estimated worst case loads. > > Maybe you can't "control" it, but if the load is predictable, what's y

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - there is

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I'd be real tempted to >> farm out this function to a capable server via tcp/ip connections. > > Okay thanks, is there any guides to farm out such connections to help? > I use Sendmail and a milter, J-Chkmail which makes this trivial. It all d

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That >>> is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - >>> there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should >>> be shac

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That >> is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - >> there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should be >> shackled with 256 meg of memory. >

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That > is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - > there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should be > shackled with 256 meg of memory. So... no chance of running cla

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Jeff Donsbach
On Dec 10, 2007 11:07 PM, Jeffrey Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > Is there any way to reduce/control the memory use of clamd? Dennis is right. But to answer your question, use "ulimit -m" in your initscript for clamd . ___ Help us build a c