Dennis Peterson wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That >>> is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - >>> there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should >>> be shackled with 256 meg of memory. >> >> So... no chance of running clamav properly with exim4 and spamassisn >> on a Linksys NSLU2 running Debian then? > > Unless you have some way to limit the total number of connections, > threads, file size, size of pattern files, and size of archives you > scan I'd say you're going to be frustrated squeezing this > functionality into that class of machine. On a bad virus day clamd > including all its LWP's can get pretty big. I'd be real tempted to > farm out this function to a capable server via tcp/ip connections.
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