Out of memory (oom) issues

[Chris]

On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 10:56 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.09.2016, 17:10 -0500 schrieb Chris:
> > 
> > I haven't run memtest yet, will do that tonight however, I'm
> > wondering
> > if someone would take a look at the question I posted on launchpad
> > and
> > see if they have any insight - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu
> > /+
> > qu
> > estion/376296
> > 
> > This started on the 29th shortly after I upgraded the kernel to
> > 4.4.0-
> > 36. I reverted back to -34 and it still happened.
> > 
> > I've added the link for the third oom today to the question above
> > on
> > launchpad.
> looking at the pastes i can see that clamd eats a lot of ram (along
> with evolution and firefox) ... clamd is really something you should
> run on your mailsever directly instead of your desktop imho ...
> 
> and there is not really a reason to use it with linux mail clients at
> all if you dont blindly open and execute attachments in spam mails.
> 
> most viruses are windows ones, while it might be good habit to
> protect
> your friends from accidentially spreading their windows viruses, the
> 1.2GB RAM that seems to costs you are probably not really worth it ;)
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
Actually Oli I don't run a mail server. This is just my home desktop. I
can get along without clam. Matter of fact I'll just shut it down and
remove the clamav.pm from my SA setup and see what happens.

Chris

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