We're looking at memory consumption as part of our development work post 0.98 release. We'll look into your other suggestions, but there are not currently projects on the table to minimize the db size.
For main.cvd, we're looking at when the right time is for merging daily.cvd into main. This merge will not impact memory utilization. Matt On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondr...@salstar.sk>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net > _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
