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

[aCaB]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:31:27PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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. 

Hi
Is this VIRT?

> > 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). 

There's something totally wrong here. The very min mem usage to be
expected is ~87-90 MB on 32bit linux systems and around 110-120 on 64bit.
That's on startup, just after loading the db and before scanning anything.
On windows the min usage is roughly 10% higher, however windows heap
allocator is not prone to fragmentation, so the idle memusage will
basically stay on those levels.
That 20 megs figure is an absolute nonsense o.0

-acab