[Clamav-devel] Best way to introduce feature to reduce memory footprint?

[Per Jessen]

Markus Kolb wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I'd like to get some thoughts of reducing the memory footprint of
> clamav (clamd)...

This was discussed quite intensively on the openSUSE list just recently:

Create /etc/systemd/system/clamd.service.d/memlimit.conf and add:

MemoryLimit=500M     (for instance)
TimeoutSec=300s

This reduces the working set according to your spec, I have had it
running in 300M.  Occasionally a scan will take longer, even up to a
minute, but 90% (in my context) are still processed in less than 1 sec. 



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