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I've searched around and few similar questions where it was said that a few 100MB memory is normal for clamd. Now actually I see it using more than 1GB and recently I have frequently that my system starts using swap and in a few instances that I even get swap errors.

How do I know that this memory usage is normal? It's hogging 1/4th of total memory.

th3penguinwhisperer
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    You might look at this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114709/how-to-reduce-clamav-memory-usage – papanito Nov 04 '20 at 11:33
  • Thanks. I had already read that. That doesn't really answer if 1GB of memory is normal. Using clamav instead of clamd might be a workaround but that amount of memory would still be used when mails are received. Setting the resident memory size is clearly a no-no in that answer. I was wondering if old definitions could still hog memory (I doubt but you never know). – th3penguinwhisperer Nov 04 '20 at 12:03

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