clamav eating memory

[Maurizio Caloro]

 

hello Debian group

here iam running Debian 10.13, clamav 0.103.7+dfsg-0+deb10u1

 

but it's this possible that clamav-daemon use 1.2G memory?

try to punish little without getting any negative effects.

 

try to enclose, but after 4-5h the mailserver will freez/break

                >[Service]

                >ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clamd --foreground=true

                >Reload the database

                >MemoryLimit=128M

                >CPUQuota=25

 

/etc# systemctl status clamav-daemon

● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)

  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d

           └─extend.conf

   Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-02-13 14:47:46 CET; 13min ago

     Docs: man:clamd(8)

           man:clamd.conf(5)

            <https://docs.clamav.net/> https://docs.clamav.net/

  Process: 31948 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /run/clamav (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 31949 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown clamav /run/clamav (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 31950 ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 31951 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown clamav /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Main PID: 31952 (clamd)

    Tasks: 2 (limit: 2358)

   Memory: 1.2G

 

thanks for any possible update