On Mon, 13 May 2019 16:21:15 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> wrote: > loading takes time, much time.
How much time are we talking about here? I suppose by 'time' we mean loading time (load binary and signatures) + processing time (comparing signatures). Now, for loading time, when I start firefox within 5-6 seconds it immediately fills up 250+ Mb memory so for 950+ Mb (clamd) loading time shouldn't be that of an issue. Please note that processing time will be the same doesn't matter whether you keep clamd and signatures loaded *all the time* or load on demand. > And, they still would take about the same memory. Yes. The difference is hogging memory *all the time* and loading *on demand* > there are many signatures, they must be parsed and understood by > clamav. The only place they can be stored at scanning time is the > memory. Of course, at scanning time those signs/dbs need to be in memory. At scanning time not *all the time*. e.g. I am expecting an email at 6 PM. I don't mind clamd taking that much of a memory *at* 6 PM and then release it. I find it absolutely inconvenient to having to forgo ~1GB memory since the morning. As I said, a poor bargain. Regards, Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
