On 2020-11-21 18:06:30 [+0100], Stephen Kitt wrote: > I noticed that clamd now uses large amounts of memory: > > clamav 1006 1.9 3.6 1405692 1186776 ? Ssl 17:53 0:12 > /usr/sbin/clamd --foreground=true
1.1g RES here. > I don’t remember it doing so until the last few weeks. Restarting it > or even rebooting doesn’t fix things. > > What can I do to help investigate the causes? It grew overtime, I guess this is mostly the database that grew. Since 103 it jumps to twice as much during reload since it does not block scan requests but creates a new database and switches once it is complete. That said I have no idea. I could forward this upstream if the size could checked / documented or so. I remember half a year ago (or so) it was less than 1GiB. > Regards, > > Stephen Sebastian