This one time, at band camp, Julien Tayon <[email protected]> said: > clamav can climb from 1002MB (starting) up to all the available memory. > > My server dont crash anymore since I restart clamav every hours. > > Looks like clamav-daemon is suffering a major memory leak under debian > (I use it on windows too V0.94.1, and it does not have this problem and > consumes only 20Mb).
As that follow up makes obvious, it's the default glibc allocator (or clamd's use of it, depending on your perspective) that's at issue. Upstream has a mostly working custom allocator pool, which should seriously help this issue when it comes out in a stable release. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [email protected] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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