I was not aware of any other way to avoid scanning large files. Where can I find such solutions?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:08 AM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
Hi there,

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Michael Kyriacou via clamav-users wrote:

> ... clamav 103.1 on ubuntu 20.04. I am getting “can’t allocate
> memory errors” on very large files ( 10GB +). I thought clamdscan
> was supposed to skip files that are larger than what you set the
> maxfilesize/maxscansize to.

Unfortunately this is a known issue:

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12374

Have you tried other ways to avoid scanning huge files?

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73,
Ged.
 OA

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