[CentOS] ClamAV "clamscan" command using huge amount of RAM
Eero Volotinen
eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Tue Apr 13 18:05:37 UTC 2010
> We have a perl cgi script that accepts uploaded files and runs
> clamscan on them. While observing the system performance I noticed
> that each clamscan process consumes up to 250MB of RAM. Is this
> normal for ClamAV? This seems like an enormous amount of RAM, for
> simply scanning one file for viruses.
I think this is normal since virus signature database takes lot of ram.
--
Eero
More information about the CentOS
mailing list