[clamav-users] fmap errors

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 June 2015 21:55:02 Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> Just in case in matters, free -m returns:
>
>                    total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
>
> Mem:           866        400        466         12         17       
> 305
>
> -/+ buffers/cache:         76        789
>
> Swap:          892          0        892

It might Bruce, thats a rather small amount of memory, and an odd value, 
doesn't look like it was ever a full megabyte.  Should it have been, or 
does your memory have a couple bad 64k banks someplace that are masked 
off somehow?  A session with memtest86 might be 'enlightening'...

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Bruce Hyatt <bruce.hyatt at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I get the following message from the daily cron scan in my root mail
> > every day:
> >
> > LibClamAV Warning: fmap: map allocation failed
> > LibClamAV Error: CRITICAL: fmap() failed
> >
> > three times. Searching this error it appears to be from scanning
> > files larger than my ram.
> >
> > Is that right?
> >
> > How do I determine which files are causing this error?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Bruce Hyatt
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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