On 4/5/06, Nick Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using Clamav 0.88.1 under amavis on Linux to scan incoming mail.
> However we often receive mails containing a number of attachments, and I
> have found out that clamav appears to hold the entire email in memory
> whilst decoding and scanning the individual attachments. Thus, for
> instance, if a customer sends us a 200Mb file containing four 35Mb word
> documents, clam's memory requirements will suddenly swell from 14 Mb up to
> 300 Mb whilst it is scanning.
WTF are you doing accepting email's at 200 MB? There are far more
appropriate methods of file transfer than SMTP!
> Can you help us reduce the memory needed for large mails, because having to
> allow so much extra memory for these large mails is very wasteful - and if
> we don't then the machine may go down when a couple of Clam threads have
> used all the memory.
Yeah, use a more appropriate file transfer method :-)
Alternatively, configure amavis to not virus scan emails above a
certain size. Obviously this has some risks.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche
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