Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 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

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-12 Thread Arthur Sherman
> Under the radar probably describes it best. Anyway, congrats > on your good fortune - I should be so lucky. I'm seeing > 50,000 dictionary attack posts/day typically, and they come > in from a huge pool. I wish I were paying what they pay for > bandwidth :) > > dp Oh yeah... Best, -- A

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-12 Thread Mohammed Ejaz
After installing 0.92 version, I dont have any memory problem - Original Message - From: "Nigel Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ClamAV users ML" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use > We anticipate t

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-12 Thread Nigel Horne
We anticipate that 0.92 will use less memory. You can download a release candidate (0.92rc2) at www.clamav.net which will give you an insight into how much better it is than 0.91.2. -Nigel ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://w

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

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeffrey Rice wrote: > Hello, > Is there any way to reduce/control the memory use of clamd? I'm running > a co-hosted VPS, so memory is at a premium. I have 256 Mb of RAM on the > machine, and clamd is taking 95Mb of virtual, and has a 65Mb resident > footprint! That seems excessive, to say th