I have similar problems too. When I started to use clamav, it was enough to
rlimit (resource limit) memory for process running libclamav to 200 MB,
now 700 MB is not enough and I need to set it to 1 GB, which looks to be
very large.
Can merging daily to main lower memory usage?
SAL
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:50:50PM +0100, Dour Fest wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I notice that clamav DB size is growing really fast, there is 500K records
> more than in last november,
> I guess it's good point for the security level of clamav.
>
> I'm personnaly using clamav on small memory devices, more records means
> more RAM and it becomes
> complicated to use clamav on such devices. I know that lot of people
> consider that memory is cheap today
> but for embedded devices it's not the case !
>
> Do you plan to provide a shorter DB ? Maybe a reduced DB with viruses
> into-the-wild (wildlist.org) should be a good option.
>
> By the way, the daily.cvd (800K entries) size is closed to the main.cvd
> (1000K entries), do you plan to generate a new main.cvd ?
>
> Best Regards
> Dour
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