It's hard to split main.cvd and find relevants signatures but we are lucky clamav team is great and can already identify active malwares : http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/cvd/malware-stats/
It's a good news that means clamav team can provide us a new cvd with signatures against active malwares :o) I have a dream last night, clamav was running easily on a Raspberry Pi A ... ;o) 2013/2/25 Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondr...@salstar.sk> > May be it will be good to split main.cvd into multiple databases and add > ability to exclude some databases from configuration and/or command line > options. > > SAL > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:56:53AM -0500, Matt Olney wrote: > > We're looking at memory consumption as part of our development work post > > 0.98 release. We'll look into your other suggestions, but there are not > > currently projects on the table to minimize the db size. > > > > For main.cvd, we're looking at when the right time is for merging > daily.cvd > > into main. This merge will not impact memory utilization. > > > > Matt > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondr...@salstar.sk > >wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
