Re: clamav on i386?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:13:38AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I built clamav, and tried to run it.  After a complaint about no
> definitions, I ran freshclam, which downloaded 62 MB, and so far it has
> not finished.
> 
> [...]
> My conclusion is that clamav is broken on i386.

My experience is that clamav has not been usable on i386 for a long time,
it can't fit in a 32bits virtual address. Some years ago I had to stop
using it on one amd64 server which has only (!) 4Gb RAM.

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