[clamav-users] Can’t allocate memory error

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Michael Kyriacou via clamav-users wrote:

> ...  This is just one example of the many times the clamd process
> seems to pause or hang. ...

That looks to me like clamd is working as designed.  It has a queueing
system which manages threads doing different kinds of work.  If you
are giving the daemon a lot of work to do, under some circumstances it
will defer processing for some threads, based on a queuing algorithm.

For more information see the 'man' page for clamd (look for 'threads',
which should lead you to configuration options to experiment with) and
perhaps also .../clamd/thrmgr.c in the ClamAV source.

Are you using any on-access scanning?

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73,
Ged.