Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:56:55 -0500: > 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. Change to clamd (use clamdscan). Yes, clamscan needs quite a bit of RAM. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com