Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-10-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 5 Oct 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: Heh, the client happens to be American on American soil. Hungarian programmers are *famous*. Have you heard of John von Neumann? ;-> Indeed I have. And Le?? Szil??rd too. -- 73, Ged.___ Hel

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-10-04 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2013-10-04 15:05 keltezéssel, G.W. Haywood írta: Hi there, On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, McDonald, Dan wrote: > On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:04 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: >> >>> The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory >>> running an embedded L

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-10-04 Thread Giles Coochey
On 04/10/2013 14:05, G.W. Haywood wrote: You did see the OP's address? I rather doubt that compliance with some American bean-counter's idea of security is the issue here, but I would welcome clarification from the OP. Believe it or not PCI-DSS extends beyond the reaches of that crazy american

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-10-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, McDonald, Dan wrote: > On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:04 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: >> >>> The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory >>> running an embedded Linux version and a special full screen applicati

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-30 Thread David Raynor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > 2013-09-30 17:58 keltezéssel, David Raynor írta: > >> >> Zoltán, >> >> Your idea of breaking the signature set into chunks to do repeated scans >> is >> a workable idea. It would require a few moving parts outside of ClamAV. I >> cannot

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-30 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2013-09-30 17:58 keltezéssel, David Raynor írta: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: 2013-09-29 10:26 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta: 2013-09-29 04:26 keltezéssel, Benny Pedersen írta: Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scann

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-30 Thread David Raynor
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > 2013-09-29 10:26 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta: > > 2013-09-29 04:26 keltezéssel, Benny Pedersen írta: >> >>> >>> Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the vi

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-30 Thread McDonald, Dan
On 9/30/13 10:25 AM, "Joel Esler" wrote: > On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:04 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: >> >>> The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory >>> running an embedded Linux version and a special full screen application >>> ov

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-30 Thread Joel Esler
On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:04 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > >> The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory >> running an embedded Linux version and a special full screen application >> over TinyX and FBDEV. >> Is is possible to make ClamAV

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-29 Thread Benny Pedersen
Boszormenyi Zoltan skrev den 2013-09-29 11:01: Is there a description of the format of the files embedded in main.cvd and daily.cvd somewhere? if you can write c / c++ then one can possible read it too ? I can write a utility then to break them up into arbitrary sized files which can be trea

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-29 Thread Benny Pedersen
Boszormenyi Zoltan skrev den 2013-09-29 10:26: Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the virus signature file at a time? freshclam and clamd can use diff database dir, so if you really like to not use main.cvd then setup freshcl

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-29 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2013-09-29 10:26 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta: 2013-09-29 04:26 keltezéssel, Benny Pedersen írta: Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the virus signature file at a time? freshclam and clamd can use diff database dir, s

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-29 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2013-09-29 04:26 keltezéssel, Benny Pedersen írta: Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the virus signature file at a time? freshclam and clamd can use diff database dir, so if you really like to not use main.cvd then setup fre

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the virus signature file at a time? freshclam and clamd can use diff database dir, so if you really like to not use main.cvd then setup freshclam.conf with database dir of freshclam, then us

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory running an embedded Linux version and a special full screen application over TinyX and FBDEV. Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with

[clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
Hi, I recently got a question from a client of mine regarding ClamAV. The question was: the virus signature file is loaded by the scanner application in whole into memory. Since this file got gradually larger and now it's too large and causes OOM in other parts of the system. The machine in ques