[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#420391: Bug#420391: clamav: addendum on 420391 (memory leak)

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Julien Tayon <pred at ti0n.net> said:
> clamav can climb from 1002MB (starting) up to all the available memory. 
> 
> My server dont crash anymore since I restart clamav every  hours. 
> 
> Looks like clamav-daemon is suffering a major memory leak under debian 
> (I use it on windows too V0.94.1, and it does not have this problem and
> consumes only 20Mb). 

As that follow up makes obvious, it's the default glibc allocator (or
clamd's use of it, depending on your perspective) that's at issue.
Upstream has a mostly working custom allocator pool, which should
seriously help this issue when it comes out in a stable release.

Cheers,
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