[clamav-users] Incremental updates and server memory

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 08.09.22 18:20, Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users wrote:
>The malware databases are updated with cdiffs, which means that the
>whole database does not have to be re-downloaded with each update.
>
>However, the running daemon has to re-read the whole database from
>disk (temporarily doubling the memory requirement). Would it make
>sense to be able to load the cdiff and avoid reloading from sratch ?

I gues the main point is that it must be implemented.

otherwise, yes, it makes perfect sense.  It would lowed cpu and memory 
usage and speed up reload.

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