[clamav-users] Clamd crashes frequently - macOS Catalina

[James Brown]

On 1 May 2020, at 7:20 pm, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> it gave me the impression that the OS is "for entertainment only”


Some people think that, but it does have BSD Unix as its base. 

> Do the clamd crashes happen at particular times, such as when clamd is
> reloading its databases, or is it while scanning?

It doesn’t happen when loading the databases. It will go for sometime hours, sometimes less. It finds and blocks viruses, etc.

> How much RAM is in the machine?  You'll need at least 2G free before
> starting clamd and freshclam, likely more with many 3rd party sigs.


clamd is using 1.70GB of RAM. Machine has 34 GB total, of which there is still 13 GB free.

I’ll try ignoring the signature that Mark suggested and hope that does the trick.

Thanks.
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