I noticed that at least with clamscan 0.83 that when scanning large files such as .iso cd image files, sometimes memory consumption of the clamscan process grows to ridiculous levels (as in, hundreds of megabytes). This isn't filesystem cache or buffers, but actual memory consumed by this process. Eventually memory levels settle down again (thus it's not really a leak) but, I was wondering why this might be? Is it normal behavior? It really reduces the performance of my system to a crawl when this happens as my systems swaps like mad.
I could send an interested developer a .iso image that can consistently reproduce the problem..
-Calin
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