From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Tue Jul 15 12:09:46 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: list@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C0CkO7kMOzNS; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tad.clamav.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F411616C1AE; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6lOi1ObHGUBw for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk (jubileegroup.co.uk [217.147.177.250]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65DD16C1C0 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:19 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: pass (mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk: domain of ged@jubileegroup.co.uk designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender) receiver=mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk; client-ip=127.0.0.1; helo=mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk; envelope-from=ged@jubileegroup.co.uk; x-software=spfmilter 0.97 http://www.acme.com/software/spfmilter/ with libspf2-1.0.0; Received: from mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6FA9JCs002147 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:19 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk: ged owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:19 +0100 (BST) From: "G.W. Haywood" To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:19 +0100 (BST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.61 on 192.168.1.2 Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15 X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Hi Stephen, On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 Stephen Gran wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:31:06PM +0100, G.W. Haywood said: > > > > > > > Here's a graph of the memory used by clamd on one of my servers: > > > > http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/clamav-milter-0.9x.gif > > > > > > .... can you also plot the number of signatures that clamav had > > > loaded at each point? > > > > http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/virus_database_count.gif > > > > The spikes in the graph are real, but as you can see the counts > > quickly return to normal. > > It looks to me like, all things considered, clamav is getting > incrementally better at memory management relative to the size of > the databases it loads, with an obvious large jump or two. Yes, that's what I said in my OP. :) Thanks all. But it doesn't explain the memoory consumption... -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml