I have similar problems too. When I started to use clamav, it was enough to rlimit (resource limit) memory for process running libclamav to 200 MB, now 700 MB is not enough and I need to set it to 1 GB, which looks to be very large.
Can merging daily to main lower memory usage? SAL On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:50:50PM +0100, Dour Fest wrote: > Hello, > > I notice that clamav DB size is growing really fast, there is 500K records > more than in last november, > I guess it's good point for the security level of clamav. > > I'm personnaly using clamav on small memory devices, more records means > more RAM and it becomes > complicated to use clamav on such devices. I know that lot of people > consider that memory is cheap today > but for embedded devices it's not the case ! > > Do you plan to provide a shorter DB ? Maybe a reduced DB with viruses > into-the-wild (wildlist.org) should be a good option. > > By the way, the daily.cvd (800K entries) size is closed to the main.cvd > (1000K entries), do you plan to generate a new main.cvd ? > > Best Regards > Dour > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net