For what it's worth, I am using Sophos with qmail-scanner-queue and I have set softlimit equal to 10000000. I've had no snags with this and I route around 7000 mails per day through this thing.
Cheers Jon Gerdes >>> Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/07/2002 21:48:17 >>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:45:15PM -0300, Abel Lucano wrote: > > Everyone must remember. ALL virus scanners get bigger with > >time. Therefore their memory requirements will ALWAYS get bigger with > >time... > > > > I'dont understand what do you mean exactly here with "..get bigger with > time.." > Do you mean that as users/domains as added to the server, should we > adjust softlimit to higher values? No - I mean that AV scanners BY DEFINITION scan for more viruses, using more complex methods of discovering them. This means the AV scanner itself gets bigger and has bigger memory/resource requirements. Don't forget, the largish memory requirement of Qmail-Scanner isn't a Qmail requirement, it's a perl + AV scanner requirement. Now perl is fairly static, so it's "needs" don't grow with time, but the AV scanner does. Each time you download the latest pattern files for it, they are bigger than the set before, every time you upgrade the engine itself - it's bigger than the one before. All this means more memory. I'm not saying they need 3Mb more RAM per month or anything like that, but in your case your original memory setting of 7M must have been "this close" to the amount needed, and when a pattern file upgrade occured, it pushed it over into 7.1M - or something like that. BTW, I wouldn't have jumped up to 15M - 9M or the like (trial and error) would have probably been better... -- Cheers Jason Haar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Caffeinated soap. No kidding. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
