I don't think it's unusual: root 10144 0.0 0.0 2172 208 ? S Apr17 0:00 supervise clamd qmaill 10150 0.0 0.0 2060 316 ? S Apr17 1:04 /usr/bin/multilog t s4000000 n100 /var/log/qmail/clamd clamav 18506 0.6 5.0 141436 105648 ? S Jun02 387:06 /usr/sbin/clamd clamav 11367 0.0 0.0 5596 1608 ? Ss Jul08 0:00 /usr/bin/freshclam -d -p /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid root 15618 0.0 0.0 4464 652 pts/2 S+ 14:17 0:00 grep clam
Mine's sitting at ~140MB after 86 days. My presumption is that after it starts scanning, it caches some things in memory (like the virus database it uses, etc). I've watched this since I read your first email and the size (on my system) has remained mostly constant, during active use. Any modern server should be able to spare 100-150MB of ram to accommodate virus scanning I would think. I run apache, qmailtoaster, mysql, vsftpd, and a VMWare virtual machine on this box (with 2GB total RAM) and have had zero issues -- and I've had it in production for over half a year now. Load on the box is split between spamd/clamd activity and httpd/mysql requests. Regards, Eric -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:19 PM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] clamd memory hog at 104MB Eric Pierce wrote: > I'd be surprised if that were the case. The last time my Qmailtoaster box > rebooted was 86 days ago (due to a power issue at the colo), and I have no > stability or memory problems. For comparison's sake, I host email for about > 35 domains -- never have any issues. > > Regards, > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:21 PM > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] clamd memory hog at 104MB > > A M wrote: >> that's about right... >> >> spamd+clamd together take about 160MB (60 for spamd + 100 for clamd) >> >> these are about average for my systems. >> >> 2007/7/12, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Am running newest Qmailtoaster components, including ClamAV v0.90.1, >>> which takes 104MB of memory. Any suggestions on how to reduce this >>> memory footprint? It's currently the biggest hog on the box, totally out >>> of control if you ask me. Have not customized it, so this is out of the >>> Qmailtoaster box. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> John B >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> > Thanks for the sanity check. I just stopped and started qmailtoaster and > now clamd shows 34MB. Then I sent an email with PDF attachment from an > external account to an existing user and clamd jumps to 44MB. I'll keep > an eye on this and see if it gets out of control, which might indicate a > memory leak...? > > John > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Here's proof (rising to 52MB just since my last post): # ps aux |grep clam clamav 1967 0.0 0.2 5756 1380 ? Ss Jul10 0:00 usr/bin/freshclam -d -p /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid root 27817 0.0 0.0 1492 236 pts/0 S 10:03 0:00 supervise clamd clamav 27825 2.1 7.2 52080 35960 pts/0 S 10:03 1:18 /usr/sbin/clamd qmaill 27827 0.0 0.0 1508 232 pts/0 S 10:03 0:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s1000000 n100 /var/log/qmail/clamd root 28869 0.0 0.1 3880 680 pts/0 R+ 11:04 0:00 grep clam --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
