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Mailu: ClamAV eats up all the memory

14.04.2024 0 comments »

ClamAV

I use Mailu as a simple mail server to manage the mails for one of my domain. This application uses ClamAv as an antivirus solution. To host this application I use VPS with only 4 GB RAM. Few weeks ago my Zabbix started sending notifications once a day that I have OOM on the mail server. It was strange as the problem appeared only once per day in the +/- same time. I tried to investigate the problem and found that the reason was in ClamAV...

Author: Vitaly Orlov

CentOS: How to add swap file

14.04.2024 20 comments »

I faced the problem on one of my VPS that leaded to the situation when the system kills ClamAv daemon that allocated all the memory during update. The server has only 4Gb of RAM and I didn't want to increase it as this will increase the payment for this server. Keeping in mind that except of this problem with ClamAv everything works fine I decided to fix this by adding the swap so the system can use it during ClamAv update.

Author: Vitaly Orlov