Hi,

> Could you start another freshclam (downloading updates into another
> database directory) that only has the official databases?
> (freshclam -d --config-file testing-freshclam.conf)
> Does that show such high memory usage too?

This would be difficult because the other databases are so helpful for
us, but I do have a few slower systems that I could do this on in the
next few days.

> What if you turn off safebrowsing on that freshclam?

I noticed the load on one of the systems go very high and freshclam
had consumed 75MB of RAM in a very short period and 99% of the CPU
resources. I disabled it in freshclam.conf, and within a few minutes
it had dropped the memory and CPU utilization went back to normal.

>> I'm using gcc-2.96 and 2.4.31, so not even sure if you support it, but
>> it will be some time before I can upgrade.
>
> Please open a bug on bugs.clamav.net so we don't forget about it.

I'm going to disable safebrowsing on the servers for now, and see if
we can better isolate the problem before I open a bug report -- I just
don't have the time to keep up with it.

Thanks,
Alex
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