On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:17, Karolis Dautartas wrote: > > Agreed, especially since ClamAV is a general virus-scanning tool and > > not specifically for email. > > while sending emails of that size and scanning them for viruses is > definately not the best idea, being unable to scan large files on your > own HDD is not good. It is common to have 256MB RAM on a workstation. > It is also common to download big CD and DVD ISOs. > > I wonder how other virus scanners perform in such situations.
Now tested against the two others I have access to. Sophie (daemonised version of Sophos) - requires no extra memory. Fsavd (F-secure daemon) - requires no extra memory. Only Clam soaks up RAM byte-for-byte when scanning emails, and as far as I can tell it doesn't give any performance benefit for doing so. Nick _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
