Hi Colin, On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, colin course via clamav-users wrote:
... memory 483 .4 mib ...
Your typing leaves a lot to be desired but I guess you've done your best to give me the information that I asked for. If we're meant to read that as four hundred and eighty-three point 4 Mebibytes then it probably means you will not be able to run ClamAV on your laptop. The published database uses about twice as much memory as that. The operating system *can* use disc as a sort of poor-man's memory *but* it's at least a thousand times slower to use, and if it works at all that would probably make scanning so slow as to be unusable. Since you're running Linux, and most of the published signatures are intended to detect threats to Windows and other Microsoft products, it might be possible to use a slimmed-down database which excludes those signatures which aren't a direct threat to your system *but* it's not something that I'd recommend, I don't know of such a database, and in any case I wonder if you have the skills to use something other than the vanilla database from the ClamAV team. In short I think if you want to run ClamAV the best thing you can do is start by getting a computer with enough memory. My recommendation would be one with at least 4 GBytes. The processor speed is not as important, but the slower it is the proportionally longer the scans will take. Sorry to be the bringer of bad news. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ 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
