[clamav-users] Services Difference & Memory Utilization

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, bobby via clamav-users wrote:

> I noticed on my CentOS 8 machine, there are two different services listed:
> clamd at multi-user.service  and system-clamd.slice.  I don't have enough
> memory to run the first one, but only the second one (192M).  Is clamd
> really running?  What is the difference between these two services?
> I only have 2 GB of memory.  Is there any way to run clamd? I get this
> error when I try to run it ...

You *might* *just* *possibly* be able to run clamd on a system with
only 2G of RAM but (a) I wouldn't recommend it, (b) it seems that you
don't have enough experience to do it, and (c) you haven't explained
what you would want it to do even if you did manage to get it to run,
so doing that would be putting the cart before the horse.

What would you want clamd to do for you?

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73,
Ged.