[clamav-users] Tips for low memory systems

[Scott Kitterman]

No.  It's a compile time option.

Scott K

On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:05:33 Michael Heuberger wrote:
> Thanks Kevin
> 
> So, how can I set --disable-llvm and --with-system--llvm when I have
> installed clamav via apt-get?
> 
> I searched for solutions in Google but found none. Any sugestions?
> 
> Any chance I can edit that in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf ?
> 
> And are there any other tweaks I could do in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf to
> reduce it's memory footpring?
> 
> Cheers
> Michael
> 
> On 28/05/14 02:42, Kevin Lin wrote:
> > One way you can reduce the amount of memory that clamav uses is to specify
> > the "--disable-llvm" flag to clamav configuration line. This flag tells
> > clamav not to compile the packaged llvm project into libclamav library and
> > will use up less space with libclamav is loaded into memory. Note that
> > this
> > means bytecode signatures will be run on the internal interpreter instead
> > of compiled to JIT using llvm.
> > 
> > The downside is that bytecode signatures with run slightly slower on the
> > clamav interpreter than with llvm JIT. However, bytecodes make up a fairly
> > small amount of clamav's signatures and, if JIT is desired with a smaller
> > memory footprint in clamav, you can configure clamav with
> > "--with-system-llvm" to use the system's native llvm.
> > 
> > -Kevin
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Michael Heuberger <
> > 
> > michael.heuberger at binarykitchen.com> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone
> >> 
> >> On my 2GB server clamav uses a lot of memory:
> >> 
> >> ```
> >> 3460     clamav     476528 kB     /usr/sbin/clamd
> >> ```
> >> 
> >> Are there tips how to tweak `/etc/clamav/clamd.conf` to reduce its
> >> memory usage?
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> Michael
> >> 
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