Hi there, On Fri, 26 May 2017, Chris Colemanwrote:
On Debian Jessie 8, 32 bit, 256MB ram, 14MB in use. Why is |freshclam| so memory hungry that it bombs out with |Failed to load new database|
The database is updated by freshclam, but it is loaded by clamd (when it finds that a new database is ready) or by clamscan if you run that tool from the command line.
when there's 242 MB of free RAM available? ...
Mailing list etiquette suggests that you read at least a few earlier posts in the archives before posting. One of the biggest complaints about ClamAV is the large amount of memory that it uses to do what little it does. If you had read, say, the last week's posts you would already know that 256MB is not nearly enough to load any recent ClamAV database. Here's the output of 'top' on one of my mail servers: mail6:~$ >>> top -b -n1 -o%MEM | head top - 17:07:35 up 41 days, 1:59, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1.0 us, 0.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.4 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 16469444 total, 14988492 used, 1480952 free, 177620 buffers KiB Swap: 3212284 total, 0 used, 3212284 free. 13462328 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1512 clamav 20 0 1012904 656804 23996 S 0.0 4.0 95:55.82 clamd 16589 defang 20 0 169552 84728 7928 S 0.0 0.5 0:05.54 mimedefang.pl 32100 defang 20 0 167096 82156 7776 S 0.0 0.5 0:02.99 mimedefang.pl As you can see, the RESident memory used on this machine by clamd is over 650Mbytes. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
