Re: [clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-14 Thread Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users
On Tue, 14 May 2019 14:53:27 + Graeme Fowler wrote: > If you're running a mail server that receives one email per > day... maybe do that in a different way so you use your resources for > something else! I'm not running a mail server. I'm using clamAV at user end scanning incoming email via

Re: [clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-13 Thread Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users
On Mon, 13 May 2019 16:21:15 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > loading takes time, much time. How much time are we talking about here? I suppose by 'time' we mean loading time (load binary and signatures) + processing time (comparing signatures). Now, for loading time, when I start firefox

Re: [clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-13 Thread Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users
On Mon, 13 May 2019 19:30:12 +0530 Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Single email account here. On average, I receive one email a day. > Devoting 1Gb memory all the time for that seems a poor bargain. Why can't clamd let databases/signatures stay in secondary memory itself. Just load them when you actu

Re: [clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-13 Thread Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users
On Mon, 13 May 2019 15:46:42 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 13.05.19 18:53, Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users wrote: > redusing the number of signatures is the only way I know of. Actually, I was thinking if I could tweak some clamd conf without removing AV databases/sign

[clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-13 Thread Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users
Hello! I'm using ClamAV 0.100.3/25448 on Debian Stretch. It's a default install without any tweaks (as far as I remember). As seen from the below top o/p, without any active scan clamd is using ~1Gb memory. That's unacceptable. May I know how do I reduce clamd memory usage? PID USER PR NI