[clamav-users] Limit memory usage of Clamd

[Kosala Lakshitha De Silva]

Thank you for your very detailed reply. It did clear up things for me.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 6:03 PM Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> On 21.06.21 08:00, Kosala Lakshitha De Silva via clamav-users wrote:
> >I have installed ClamAV on a container (runs on alpine). Also I have a web
> >service running in the same container which is used to expose scanning to
> >outside. I am using clam demon to do the scanning. (via TCP socket)
> >
> >When I run this setup it takes memory usage upto 1.5GB. if I only ran the
> >webservice (i.e. not initializing clam demon) it only takes about 350MB of
> >RAM.
>
> I don't know how you measure it, but running clamscan took about the same
> amount of memory as clamd now when I tried.
>
>
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