[clamav-users] Clamd memory usage running high?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.02.2017 um 14:31 schrieb Groach:
>
>> the much better question is *why* is clamav that much memory wasting >
> especially 385 MB for the official rules which barely hit anything and >
> are removed here entirely from production machines for some weeks after
>> hit nothing over the last 3 months - any catches was done by >
> sanesecurity alone > > that whole thing don't scale at all compared to
> any other AV solution > which runs fine on a win7 virtual machine with a
> total of 2 GB RAM
>
> Quite.
>
> (Ssshhhh....  Joel doesnt like you saying bad things about their
> signatures!  :-/   )
>
> Anyway.... still looking for answers to why the comparison in the
> original example is so high

it's not about their signatures alone - it's about clamav at all because 
also the memory usage of 3rd party signatures is higher than any other 
malware scanner on this planet

that maybe would fine if clamav would have the best hitrate, but by far 
it don't