[clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 13.05.19 18:53, Avinash Sonawane via clamav-users wrote:
>I'm using ClamAV 0.100.3/25448 on Debian Stretch. It's a default
>install without any tweaks (as far as I remember).
>
>As seen from the below top o/p, without any active scan clamd is using
>~1Gb memory. That's unacceptable. May I know how do I reduce clamd
>memory usage?

redusing the number of signatures is the only way I know of.

>PID USER     PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM  TIME+ COMMAND
>8164 clamav  20  0 1255316  988.1m  31296 S   0.0 25.9  0:50.44 clamd

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 2634 clamav    20   0  999856 866568  12912 S   0.0 21.0 265:55.12 clamd

but I apparently have lesser traffic.
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