On 4/5/06, Daniel T. Staal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From the original email, it appears ClamAV requires more available, real,
> RAM than the largest file it will handle.
Not at all - the original documents will have been most likely base64
encoded (maybe uuencode, but I'd be surprised), which results in a
significantly larger file. The ratio was in the region of what I'd
expect for a program scanning the file in memory.
And of course, ClamAV knows nothing about any difference between RAM
and swap - that's down to the OS. You'll get better performance if
it's all RAM, but it'll still work if it's swap.
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