Re: [clamav-users] Memory allocation issue

2023-03-15 Thread newcomer01 via clamav-users
<mailto:newcome...@posteo.de> CC / CC: Damian <mailto:clamav-us...@arcsin.de> Gesendet / Sent: Mittwoch, März 15, 2023 um 10:27 (at 10:27 AM) +0100 Betreff / Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Memory allocation issue However this .wdb will not pla

Re: [clamav-users] Memory allocation issue

2023-03-15 Thread Damian via clamav-users
However this .wdb will not play with 1.0.1 Can we have it?___ 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/Cisc

[clamav-users] Memory allocation issue

2023-03-14 Thread Paul Netpresto
Hello Currently using Clamav 0.103.8 and I am looking at Clamav 1.0.1 as our next LTS service. I have one small custom .wdb file which works fine with 0.103.8 and earlier versions. However this .wdb will not play with 1.0.1 and produces root@myhouse:/home/paule# /usr/local/bin/clamscan --d

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-13 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
> > -- > *From:* clamav-users on behalf of > Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users > *Sent:* Saturday, December 10, 2022 8:08 AM > *To:* ClamAV users ML > *Cc:* Jorge Elissalde > *Subject:* Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-13 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
clamdscan > >1. clamdscan --log= --multiscan ... > > Neither of these were able to reproduce the behavior you are seeing. Can > you tell me a little more about your particular configuration, and what > else I can try to reproduce this? > > Thanks, > Andy > > -- &g

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-13 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
gt; > > ------ > *From:* clamav-users on behalf of > Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users > *Sent:* Saturday, December 10, 2022 8:08 AM > *To:* ClamAV users ML > *Cc:* Jorge Elissalde > *Subject:* Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop runn

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-12 Thread Andy Ragusa (aragusa) via clamav-users
From: clamav-users on behalf of Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 8:08 AM To: ClamAV users ML Cc: Jorge Elissalde Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running Hi, Thank you for your time and tests. If I turn off the ScanArchive switch

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-10 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
; > -- > *From:* clamav-users on behalf of > Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users > *Sent:* Thursday, December 8, 2022 6:20 AM > *To:* ClamAV users ML > *Cc:* Jorge Elissalde > *Subject:* Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-09 Thread Andy Ragusa (aragusa) via clamav-users
lse I can try to reproduce this? Thanks, Andy From: clamav-users on behalf of Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2022 6:20 AM To: ClamAV users ML Cc: Jorge Elissalde Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop runnin

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-08 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
is being scanned when this happens? > > Could you please send clamd's logs to help determine what is going on? > > Thanks, > Andy > -- > *From:* clamav-users on behalf of > Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 7, 2

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-08 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
ar file that is being scanned when this happens? > > Could you please send clamd's logs to help determine what is going on? > > Thanks, > Andy > -- > *From:* clamav-users on behalf of > Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users > *Sent:* W

Re: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-07 Thread Andy Ragusa (aragusa) via clamav-users
022 3:41 PM To: ClamAV users ML Cc: Jorge Elissalde Subject: [clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running Hi, I'm using the latest Windows Clamav version (1.0.0). I'm connected to clamd and I request a folder scan having 94,249 files, 10GB total. The command I send is MU

[clamav-users] Memory Allocation error, clamd stop running

2022-12-07 Thread Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users
Hi, I'm using the latest Windows Clamav version (1.0.0). I'm connected to clamd and I request a folder scan having 94,249 files, 10GB total. The command I send is MULTISCAN [folder]. When scanner is over 9,075 files it stops working and the message is: memory allocation of 1048576 bytes failed C

Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users
folks who wish to run with as much coverage as possible. -Micah From: clamav-users On Behalf Of PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:08 AM To: ClamAV users ML Cc: PenguinWhispererThe Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM That 2 hour

Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users
That 2 hour you mention seems to explain why it's always around the same time and seems to come earlier or later by 2 hours. I do not know if it literally coincides with that refresh (not sure if that's logged on my system). Having the database reloaded in chunks looks a lot more efficient to me.

Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread Arjen de Korte via clamav-users
Citeren PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users : Hi, I have a webserver with 4GB of memory that also functions as a mailserver. The mail volume is rather low (perhaps a few hundred mails/day). Almost every day around the same time I get a swap usage warning and once in a while clamd crashes becau

Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread Frans de Boer
On 02/12/2020 09:34, PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users wrote: Hi, I have a webserver with 4GB of memory that also functions as a mailserver. The mail volume is rather low (perhaps a few hundred mails/day). Almost every day around the same time I get a swap usage warning and once in a while c

Re: [clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users
Thanks! I've modified the setting. Seems very likely that this is the culprit. On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 09:41, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a webserver with 4GB of memory that also functions as a > mailserver. >

[clamav-users] Memory usage going up until OOM

2020-12-02 Thread PenguinWhispererThe via clamav-users
Hi, I have a webserver with 4GB of memory that also functions as a mailserver. The mail volume is rather low (perhaps a few hundred mails/day). Almost every day around the same time I get a swap usage warning and once in a while clamd crashes because it has no more swap space available blocking ma

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-23 Thread Al Varnell
Clearly it was announced that future signatures would not be checked against 0.97.x and that they might or might not work after 1June. The last time you referred to was done purposely and announced because a new signature format was added which would not work at all with older engines, so those

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-23 Thread Steve basford
On 23 October 2016 21:11:26 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 22.10.16 22:53, Steve basford wrote: Upgrade... ie. https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/ClamAV_DB_update_leads_to_**UNCHECKED**_in_all_messages I wonder if this hasn't been known prior to the update. Last EOL blog entry I saw was: h

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.10.16 22:53, Steve basford wrote: Upgrade... ie. https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/ClamAV_DB_update_leads_to_**UNCHECKED**_in_all_messages I wonder if this hasn't been known prior to the update. Last time I remember a signasture was pushed that deliberately made clamav crash, but it was annou

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-23 Thread Marcelo Machado
Thanks for all answers. I will upgrade my zimbra. Best Regards. 2016-10-22 19:53 GMT-02:00 Steve basford : > Upgrade... ie. https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/C > lamAV_DB_update_leads_to_**UNCHECKED**_in_all_messages > > Cheers, > > Steve > Twitter: @sanesecurity > > > > > On 22 October 2016 21:40:1

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-22 Thread Steve basford
Upgrade... ie. https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/ClamAV_DB_update_leads_to_**UNCHECKED**_in_all_messages Cheers, Steve Twitter: @sanesecurity On 22 October 2016 21:40:11 Marcelo Machado wrote: Hi everybody. I have a Zimbra server and the clamav crashes when it loads the virus definitions afte

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-22 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
Correct. That version is EOL. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Yuri Voinov wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > First of all, upgrade. Current version is 0.99.2. Your version is simple > ancient and rancid years ago. > > > 23.10.2016 2:39,

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-22 Thread Gerben Wierda
> On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:39, Marcelo Machado wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > I have a Zimbra server and the clamav crashes when it loads the virus > definitions after last updates. The freshclam.log shown many lines with > this error "WARNING: [libclamav] mpool_malloc (): Attempt to allocate > 8388

Re: [clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-22 Thread Yuri Voinov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 First of all, upgrade. Current version is 0.99.2. Your version is simple ancient and rancid years ago. 23.10.2016 2:39, Marcelo Machado ?: > Hi everybody. > > I have a Zimbra server and the clamav crashes when it loads the virus > definitions

[clamav-users] Memory error

2016-10-22 Thread Marcelo Machado
Hi everybody. I have a Zimbra server and the clamav crashes when it loads the virus definitions after last updates. The freshclam.log shown many lines with this error "WARNING: [libclamav] mpool_malloc (): Attempt to allocate 8388608 bytes Please report to http://bugs.clamav.net."; Clamav version

Re: [clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Olney
All of that is being looked at in the freshclam rewrite portion of the next version of ClamAV. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Matt Olney skrev den 2013-03-26 14:10: > > Not really sure what other people are thinking. ClamAV is built into >> Sourcefire's advanced malw

Re: [clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-26 Thread Benny Pedersen
Matt Olney skrev den 2013-03-26 14:10: Not really sure what other people are thinking. ClamAV is built into Sourcefire's advanced malware protection product (FireAMP). So we use it, at least. will it be opensource, with license key ?, well for now i happy with clamav, its good to use for st

Re: [clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Olney
Not really sure what other people are thinking. ClamAV is built into Sourcefire's advanced malware protection product (FireAMP). So we use it, at least. Matt On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Matt Olney skrev den 2013-03-22 18:49: > > > Yep, we've heard that a couple

Re: [clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
Matt Olney skrev den 2013-03-22 18:49: Yep, we've heard that a couple of times. We'll do our best to address it. being on clouds with sigle user clamd is waste of ram :) i find this very funny that a cloud service cant provide cloud service with clamd are clamd not powerfull enough yet ?

Re: [clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-22 Thread Matt Olney
HI Christian, Yep, we've heard that a couple of times. We'll do our best to address it. Matt On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Christian Salway wrote: > In your new version, can you please consider how to run it on low memory > systems (<512MB) for spamassassin other than direct from the comm

[clamav-users] Memory level

2013-03-22 Thread Christian Salway
In your new version, can you please consider how to run it on low memory systems (<512MB) for spamassassin other than direct from the command line which takes time to load each time it's called. Our basic internet servers we roll out to dedicated clients run on the Amazon EC2 micro servers and con

[Clamav-users] Memory Footprint is to high

2009-09-17 Thread Dimas Korbmacher
Hello all, I noticed that the memory usage of clamd (latest version) is to high. about 7,4% of my servers ram. That's 148 MB. I know that's a known Issue, but is there a possibility to make the usage less? Thank you. Regards, Dimas Korbmacher ___

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's rather simple. Every single one of the viruses we looked at has > been a windows executable, therefore could not have possibly infected a > non windows platform. You've never seen a macro virus??? What OS they execute on isn't really the point. The

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-04-01 Thread SM
At 13:04 31-03-2008, Dennis Peterson wrote: >How are able to determine that? There's nothing in the connection >information or in the message that identifies the source OS, hardware, >or MTA. Everything in a message can be spoofed as can the sending Passive OS fingerprinting. That only works if t

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Bit Fuzzy
It may be just me, but I think this topic has been beaten to death :-\ ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > I've had a feeling for several posts that we have not been having the > same conversation. I've never seen anything but Windows viruses in the > nearly 30 years I've been doing this but that's not what we're talking > about. We're talking about the probability that Wind

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joe Sloan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Joe Sloan wrote: > >>> Perhaps our sample size is too small, but it certainly seems that this >>> whole overhyped idea of viruses apart from ms windows is a non-issue in >>> practice. > >> How are able to determine that? There's nothing in the connec

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:38:10 -0700 Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > Joe Sloan wrote: > > >> Perhaps our sample size is too small, but it certainly seems that this > >> whole overhyped idea of viruses apart from ms windows is a non-issue in > >> practice. > > >

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Jason Haar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> P0f maybe? Although with my experience it has never been that accurate >> and is easy to fool if one so desires. >> > We're using p0f integrated into Qmail-Scanner to track what OS is > associated with incoming SMTP connections. > > Just to add

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> Perhaps our sample size is too small, but it certainly seems that this >> whole overhyped idea of viruses apart from ms windows is a non-issue in >> practice. > How are able to determine that? There's nothing in the connection > information or in th

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Gerard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:59:05 -0700 > Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Rudd wrote: > >>> Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they >>> can't possibly be sending out viruses. The person who expressed >>> that is, as I said, being naive. And

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Haar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > P0f maybe? Although with my experience it has never been that accurate > and is easy to fool if one so desires. > We're using p0f integrated into Qmail-Scanner to track what OS is associated with incoming SMTP connections. Just to add some 'facts' to this discussion

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While it's fine to talk theory, the facts of the matter are fairly > clear. Are they? > We run mail servers that see tens of millions of messages monthly > on behalf of 15,000 users. I run much smaller ones... > Out of the thousands of different viruses

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread kwijibo
Dennis Peterson wrote: > How are able to determine that? There's nothing in the connection > information or in the message that identifies the source OS, hardware, > or MTA. Everything in a message can be spoofed as can the sending > system. The only thing you can be sure of is the IP you log d

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:59:05 -0700 Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rudd wrote: > > Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they > > can't possibly be sending out viruses. The person who expressed > > that is, as I said, being naive. And, irresponsible. > Whi

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben wrote: | I run clamd on a CentOS server, with freshclam, and clamsmtpd to scan mail. | And I use it interfacing with postfix. | However, just clamd alone uses 23 Megabytes when idle! | | Can someone post configuration options to limit or lower me

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joe Sloan wrote: > John Rudd wrote: > >> Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they >> can't possibly be sending out viruses. The person who expressed that >> is, as I said, being naive. And, irresponsible. > > > While it's fine to talk theory, the facts of the matte

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they > can't possibly be sending out viruses. The person who expressed that > is, as I said, being naive. And, irresponsible. While it's fine to talk theory, the facts of the matter are fairly clear. We run ma

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:38:23PM -0700, Joe Sloan wrote: > John Rudd wrote: > > Joe Sloan wrote: > >> John Rudd wrote: > >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: > And to follow up on the earlier > point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus > distribution, > >>> The i

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread John Rudd
Joe Sloan wrote: > John Rudd wrote: >> Joe Sloan wrote: >>> John Rudd wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: > And to follow up on the earlier > point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus > distribution, The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.)

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> John Rudd wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: And to follow up on the earlier point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus distribution, >>> The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the >>> net

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread John Rudd
Joe Sloan wrote: > John Rudd wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> And to follow up on the earlier >>> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus >>> distribution, >> >> The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the >> net cannot be subverted int

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> And to follow up on the earlier >> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus >> distribution, > > > The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the > net cannot be subverted into being a spam/virus z

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:07:32 -0700 Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rudd wrote: > > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And to follow up on the earlier > >> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus > >> distribution, > > > > > > The idea that any platform (

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Bit Fuzzy
Dennis Peterson wrote: > And to follow up on the earlier > point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus > distribution, > > Two minutes to hack a Mac and it's now available to generate spam and > become a drone to spread malware for other Macs or Windows systems. > >

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
John Rudd wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> And to follow up on the earlier >> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus >> distribution, > > > The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the > net cannot be subverted into being a spam/virus z

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread John Rudd
Dennis Peterson wrote: > And to follow up on the earlier > point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus > distribution, The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the net cannot be subverted into being a spam/virus zombie is, at best, naive. An

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread John Rudd
rick pim wrote: > Dennis Peterson writes: > > But we know from the volumes of spam and viruses now approaching > > if not exeeding 90% that you are the exception, not the norm. > > > spam yes, viruses. not so much. our experience has been that > email-borne viruses are way, way down: yeste

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
rick pim wrote: > Dennis Peterson writes: > > But we know from the volumes of spam and viruses now approaching > > if not exeeding 90% that you are the exception, not the norm. > > > spam yes, viruses. not so much. our experience has been that > email-borne viruses are way, way down: yeste

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-31 Thread rick pim
Dennis Peterson writes: > But we know from the volumes of spam and viruses now approaching > if not exeeding 90% that you are the exception, not the norm. spam yes, viruses. not so much. our experience has been that email-borne viruses are way, way down: yesterday's logs from one of our ma

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Derick Centeno
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:14:38 +0200 Sarocet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of > > your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. I agree with him. I'm sure > > I'm not the only one who would blacklist you ri

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ben wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wow - as a long term IT professional I thought I'd heard it all but this >> takes the cake. In all the past waves of viruses we've seen, they have >> been analyzed in depth and found to be 100% windows. If you

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:06:01 +0200 Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow - as a long term IT professional I thought I'd heard it all but this > > takes the cake. In all the past waves of viruses we've seen, they have > > b

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Ben
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Bit Fuzzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's right of course, the thought alone is dangerous for any > administrator to entertain. I'll tell you what: I'll stop using clamav entirely and go use something much better. Don't bother replying, I will not read it. I'

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Ben
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow - as a long term IT professional I thought I'd heard it all but this > takes the cake. In all the past waves of viruses we've seen, they have > been analyzed in depth and found to be 100% windows. If you have some > evi

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Ben
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not unthinkable, there actually are places where microsoft software > is not used. Indeed. Those paranoid idiots who put mailservers on blacklists based on some words in a mailinglist need to get a reality check either

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Lyle Giese
Bit Fuzzy wrote: It's not unthinkable, there actually are places where microsoft software is not used. >>> Doesn't matter - there's no reason to suspect that all viruses originate >>> from Windows. Could I have your outgoing smtp IP please? >>> >>>

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sarocet wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of >> your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. I agree with him. I'm sure >> I'm not the only one who would blacklist you right now because of your >> policy if we knew your outgoing

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Bit Fuzzy
>>> It's not unthinkable, there actually are places where microsoft software >>> is not used. >>> >> Doesn't matter - there's no reason to suspect that all viruses originate >> from Windows. Could I have your outgoing smtp IP please? >> > > Wow - as a long term IT professional I thou

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> It's not unthinkable, there actually are places where microsoft software >> is not used. > > Doesn't matter - there's no reason to suspect that all viruses originate > from Windows. Could I have your outgoing smtp IP please? Wow - as a long term IT

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Sarocet
Dennis Peterson wrote: > I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of > your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. I agree with him. I'm sure > I'm not the only one who would blacklist you right now because of your > policy if we knew your outgoing smtp IP. > Scanni

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joe Sloan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Ben wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 AM, taj home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please dont email me. >>> I'm not emailing you. >> I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of >> your idiot policy on outgoing virus scann

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Ben wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 AM, taj home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> please dont email me. >> I'm not emailing you. > > I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of > your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. Come now, that's

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ben wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 AM, taj home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> please dont email me. > > I'm not emailing you. I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. I agree with him. I'm sure I'm not the only one

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Ben
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 AM, taj home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please dont email me. I'm not emailing you. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread taj home
please dont email me. On 3/30/08, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Randal Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Ben wrote:... > > > Virus scanning is not even that important on this server, my users > > > would never be sending vir

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Ben
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 23 meg is not very large. Many versions ago it would grow to half a gig > at which time my watchdog would restart it. How would one implement that? Or is that just a matter of googling "watchdog" ? I've never used one,

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Ben
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Randal Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Ben wrote:... > > Virus scanning is not even that important on this server, my users > > would never be sending viruses, > This is a dangerous assumption. > Conceivably, your users would n

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Randal Hicks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Ben wrote:... > > Virus scanning is not even that important on this server, my users > would never be sending viruses, . . . This is a dangerous assumption. Conceivably, your users would never /intentionally/ send viruses

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ben wrote: > I run clamd on a CentOS server, with freshclam, and clamsmtpd to scan mail. > And I use it interfacing with postfix. > However, just clamd alone uses 23 Megabytes when idle! > That is approximately what I see with RHEL4 and Solaris 9. For Solaris 8 and 10 on a fresh start it is abou

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread shuttlebox
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run clamd on a CentOS server, with freshclam, and clamsmtpd to scan mail. > And I use it interfacing with postfix. > However, just clamd alone uses 23 Megabytes when idle! 23 MB is huge? What are you running it on, a Commodore 6

[Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-29 Thread Ben
I run clamd on a CentOS server, with freshclam, and clamsmtpd to scan mail. And I use it interfacing with postfix. However, just clamd alone uses 23 Megabytes when idle! Can someone post configuration options to limit or lower memory footstamp of clamav all around? I'm looking for concrete functio

[Clamav-users] memory/resource/perms problem with the latest dev clamav under FreeBSD

2008-01-27 Thread Roman Serbski
Hi list- Just upgraded to the latest devel release of ClamAV (clamav-devel-20080124) under FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 and immidiately got memory/resource/perms error and high processor load. According to ports the ClamAV version: %pkg_info | grep clamav clamav-devel-20080124 Command line virus scanner writt

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:18:42PM -0600, Joshua Rubin wrote: >Tue Aug 14 15:08:40 2007 -> No stats for Database check - forcing reload >Tue Aug 14 15:08:40 2007 -> Reading databases from /var/share/clamav >Tue Aug 14 15:09:16 2007 -> Database correct

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-14 Thread Joshua Rubin
Hi All, We have found a fairly reliable way to reproduce this bug. 1. Edit the clamd.conf so that SelfCheck is set to 30 (seconds). 2. Restart clamd 3. Wait for the databases to load plus an additional 30 seconds (a minute is plenty) 4. Scan a file with clamdscan 5. Look in the log file for somet

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-14 Thread Joshua Rubin
Hi All, > The graph shows two sudden increases in memory consumption, both > consist of more than one step change. The first group of events is a > change from 30 to 56 Megabytes at 04:50 on July 18 and from 56 to 61 > Megabytes at 08:55 on the same day. The second is on July 27 when > memory cons

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)? - Temporary partial files

2007-08-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Eric Kruse schrieb: >> Does clamd (0.91.1) have a memory leak of some sort? > > > > After it's started, it takes just about 40-50 MB: > > > > clamav 13602 48.0 8.4 47932 45128 ?Ds 10:38 > 0:01 > > clamd > > -c /etc/clamd.conf

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)? - Temporary partial files

2007-08-14 Thread Eric Kruse
> Does clamd (0.91.1) have a memory leak of some sort? > > After it's started, it takes just about 40-50 MB: > > clamav 13602 48.0 8.4 47932 45128 ?Ds 10:38 0:01 > clamd > -c /etc/clamd.conf > > > Aft

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-13 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Re: memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)? > Does clamd (0.91.1) have a memory leak of some sort? I use sendmail and clamav-milter, and I see something rather strange with 0.91.1. I haven't usesd versions between those, I moved from 0.88.7 direct

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-13 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 13/08/2007, Tomasz Chmielewski disait > Does clamd (0.91.1) have a memory leak of some sort? > > After it's started, it takes just about 40-50 MB: > > clamav 13602 48.0 8.4 47932 45128 ?Ds 10:38 0:01 clamd > -c /etc/clamd.conf > > > After some time, the memory usage goes

[Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Does clamd (0.91.1) have a memory leak of some sort? After it's started, it takes just about 40-50 MB: clamav 13602 48.0 8.4 47932 45128 ?Ds 10:38 0:01 clamd -c /etc/clamd.conf After some time, the memory usage goes to about 100 MB, machine begins to swap more and more: clama

RE: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-23 Thread jphillip
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Mark wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Stephan Brauss > > Sent: zaterdag 23 december 2006 12:39 > > To: 'ClamAV users ML' > > Subject: RE:

Re: SPAM-LOW: RE: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-23 Thread jphillip
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Stephan Brauss wrote: > > My experience: vmdk-file can't be properly scanned without accounting for > > the vmdk base of the file. They are not files Clamav understands. Just as > > zip files need special handling, vmdk files need special handling. VMware > > > has publish

RE: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-23 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stephan Brauss > Sent: zaterdag 23 december 2006 12:39 > To: 'ClamAV users ML' > Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!? > > > My experience: vmd

RE: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-23 Thread Stephan Brauss
> My experience: vmdk-file can't be properly scanned without accounting for > the vmdk base of the file. They are not files Clamav understands. Just as > zip files need special handling, vmdk files need special handling. VMware > has published the specs. I don't have the time/smarts to process

AW: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-23 Thread Stephan Brauss
> I don't know the format of a VMWare file. Is it useful to scan it (or are > the contents enough unlike what a scanner knows about that problems are > unlikely to be seen anyhow)? Perhaps it makes more sense to scan VMs from > within the VM. I do not want to scan it, but I tried out clamav, and

Re: SPAM-LOW: [Clamav-users] Memory leak on x86_64!?

2006-12-22 Thread jphillip
My experience: vmdk-file can't be properly scanned without accounting for the vmdk base of the file. They are not files Clamav understands. Just as zip files need special handling, vmdk files need special handling. VMware has published the specs. I don't have the time/smarts to process vmdk

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