ps -aux
...
clamav 2716 0.0 4.1 222492 168760 ? Ssl May26 0:40 clamd
clamav 2722 0.0 0.0 57540 784 ? Ssl May26 0:00 clamav-milter
...
On a Prolient GL165 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2352 with 4GIG of
memory. Fedora release 8 (Werewolf), ClamAV 0.96.1/11089/Thu May 27 06:47:23
2010.
The process has been running for a day on our resides on our smtp gateway
server, along side SpamAssassin..
> From: cswi...@mac.com
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:27:05 -0700
> To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav Memory/System requirements
>
> Hi, Alex--
>
> On May 26, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Alex wrote:
> > Is it expected that clamd on Linux should take 315MB of RAM with a
> > normal configuration? The system is pretty busy, with clamdtop being
> > "IDLE" for no longer than two seconds at a time, with apparently three
> > instances running.
>
> v0.96.1 clamd tends to run around 190MB during normal operation here under
> FreeBSD, and can drop back to around 120 MB if left completely idle. It
> also tends to bounce up to nearly 300MB for a brief period when a DB refresh
> happens, but it drops back to ~190MB pretty quickly
>
> > Is that 315MB an accurate representation, as reported by clamdtop, and
> > standard top?
>
> Probably. I gather that GNU's libc has deferred free() semantics when
> threading is in use, so it might not be freeing up memory as quickly as other
> C library implementations do. You might also check that you don't have both
> a main.cvd and main.cld, because that might cause two copies of the
> signatures to get loaded and nearly double the memory requirements....
>
> > Is the memory requirements dependent upon the number of signatures,
> > databases, or otherwise?
>
> Mostly proportional to the # of signatures, which in my case is ~ 977401--
> plus some more if you scan big files.
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
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