[clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
Hi, I recently got a question from a client of mine regarding ClamAV. The question was: the virus signature file is loaded by the scanner application in whole into memory. Since this file got gradually larger and now it's too large and causes OOM in other parts of the system. The machine in

Re: [clamav-users] configure error with clamav-0.98

2013-09-28 Thread Pierre Dehaen
Thanks for the configure patch, Lawrence, you solved the issue on sparc as well. And with the Types.h patch of Shawn, the make passed too. Pierre On 27 Sep 2013 at 15:54, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: - Original Message - Been struggling with configure complaining that it can't

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: The machine in question is an older thingy with 256MB memory running an embedded Linux version and a special full screen application over TinyX and FBDEV. Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV on small memory computers

2013-09-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
Is is possible to make ClamAV use less memory perhaps by repetitive scanning with a smaller subset of the virus signature file at a time? freshclam and clamd can use diff database dir, so if you really like to not use main.cvd then setup freshclam.conf with database dir of freshclam, then