With the following combinaison of parms, it seems to work better :)
root@minipc:/lib/systemd/system# cat clamav-daemon.service
[Unit]
Description=Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
Documentation=man:clamd(8) man:clamd.conf(5) https://www.clamav.net/documents/
# Check for database
I've started the unit with MemoryHigh=512M because MemoryLimit would
kill the process
I see that systemd has accepted the parameter, but the process still takes 1.1G
:
Memory: 1.1G (high: 512.0M)
as seen in the status report :
# systemctl status clamav-daemon.service
● clamav-daemon.service
Hello.
Well first I valgrinded clamd to see if any memory leak was detected. To my
knowledge it seems not.
Then I googled on this behaviour and found lots of people complaining of ram
footprint of clamd. In fact this behaviour seems linked to the necessity of
loading all virus database in ram
Hi, thanks for reporting the bug.
Before anything else, I would like to ask if there is any particular
reason why you marked the bug as Invalid. Have you perhaps found the
problem or a workaround? If that is the case, then could you update
this bug and post what you've found? Maybe other users
any means to limit the ram consumption of clamd ?
** Changed in: clamav (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Converted to question:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+question/694421
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** Tags added: apport-collected
** Description changed:
the clamd process takes more than 7% of system RAM as soon as it starts
Since my
