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Offline Alireza Qasemi

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clam av use many memory
« on: June 29, 2017, 02:32:34 AM »
why does clam av use 500MB memory ?

Offline hendy

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Re: clam av use many memory
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2017, 09:10:54 AM »
It seems that ClamAV loaded all its virus signature database into the memory. It may need to do this to speed up the returning of the scan result when scanning operation is requested.