ps -aux
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clamav2716 0.0 4.1 222492 168760 ? Ssl May26 0:40 clamd
clamav2722 0.0 0.0 57540 784 ?Ssl May26 0:00 clamav-milter
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On a Prolient GL165 4 x Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2352 with 4GIG of
memory. Fedora release 8 (Werewolf), ClamAV 0.96.1/11089/Thu May 27 06:47:23
2010.
The process has been running for a day on our resides on our smtp gateway
server, along side SpamAssassin..
From: cswi...@mac.com
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:27:05 -0700
To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav Memory/System requirements
Hi, Alex--
On May 26, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Alex wrote:
Is it expected that clamd on Linux should take 315MB of RAM with a
normal configuration? The system is pretty busy, with clamdtop being
IDLE for no longer than two seconds at a time, with apparently three
instances running.
v0.96.1 clamd tends to run around 190MB during normal operation here under
FreeBSD, and can drop back to around 120 MB if left completely idle. It
also tends to bounce up to nearly 300MB for a brief period when a DB refresh
happens, but it drops back to ~190MB pretty quickly
Is that 315MB an accurate representation, as reported by clamdtop, and
standard top?
Probably. I gather that GNU's libc has deferred free() semantics when
threading is in use, so it might not be freeing up memory as quickly as other
C library implementations do. You might also check that you don't have both
a main.cvd and main.cld, because that might cause two copies of the
signatures to get loaded and nearly double the memory requirements
Is the memory requirements dependent upon the number of signatures,
databases, or otherwise?
Mostly proportional to the # of signatures, which in my case is ~ 977401--
plus some more if you scan big files.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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