Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15

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Author: G.W. Haywood
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To: clamav-users
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15
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...

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73,
Ged.
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