On 2016-06-23 08:37, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
640kb. Sorry, I missed your joke. Yeah - compared to the memory sizes of yesteryear, 8Gb in a desktop is another world altogether.
Yep.
Seriously, I think that clamd should free that ram when iddling or waiting, and request it when really needed.
It would be a waste of IO and really slow thjings down. clamd keeps the signature database in core to be able to produce fast responses.
Not really... when the daemon detects that it has no requests for some time (say, five minutes, one hour), free memory. Reload on the first request, for another interval. In my case, it is used a few times a day, or perhaps none. I could do a script to run fetchmail and previously load it.
True... But this is Linux, I don't pick files on Windows the few times I use it. Actually, I have received a few emails with malware that clamav does not detect.
Same here, every day. The sanesecurity databases are good for a lot of that, but some still get through. A lot of it isn't really "malware" either - just links to website with malware etc.
Hit ratio is about 50% here. I mean, 50% is not detected. And the total malware may be five per month... It was much more some years ago. Probably the ISPs are filtering. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)