[clamav-users] ERROR: Malformed database -> Closing the main socket.

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Jim Ward via clamav-users wrote:

> I poked around based on the 'Disable Official Database' thread previously mentioned.  Clam wanted nothing to do with either missing or zero length main and daily files.
>
> However digging in to syslogs, I found this interesting tidbit of information:
> ...
> Nov 17 09:10:57  clamd[4496]: LibClamAV Error: mpool_malloc(): Can't allocate memory (262144 bytes).​
>
> free -m
>              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available​
> Mem:            994         250         692          12          51         642​
> Swap:             0           0           0​
>
> So the question now is where to go from here  🙁

To the memory shop.  You don't have enough to run clamd with the
official databases, which alone will take something like 1GByte.

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73,
Ged.