Kaspersky Antivirus Module consumes lots of RAM

[Flachzange]

Hi,

I have installed the Kaspersky Antivirus Module for my Plesk 9.2.3 on Ubuntu 8.04. Since a while I noticed that the aveserver is consuming lots of RAM. In my case 180MB, which is quite much. I completey removed and reinstalled the kaspersky stuff, but without a change..

Does anyone has suggestion for a solution or is this behavior just normal?

Regards,
Christoph

 

[IgorG]

I have checked it on our test environments and seems it is correct behaviour. Kaspersky is third-party antivirus software and I think that you can contact their support for more details.

 

[Flachzange]

Hi Igor,

thanks for your reply. Do you mean with "it is correct behavior" either

1) that your kaspersky installation works fine and does not consume that much memory or

2) that my observation was correct?

I have to say that kaspersky seems to scan all emails now, but it still consumes 180MB of RAM.

Regards,
Christoph

 

[ramuva]

only 180? I've seen KAV consuming 500 Mb+ after running for a couple weeks. It is very memory hungry. Brace yourself for worse.

 

[IgorG]

Correct behaviour is that Kaspersky consume a lot of memory. Why? - Contact Kaspersky support

 

[Flachzange]

OK, thanks for your answers.

 

[IgorG]

OK, thanks for your answers.

Please update this thread with results from Kaspersky side if they help you.

 

[Flachzange]

I have talked to some guys at kaspersky's. They say: The Kaspersky Plesk Module is an OEM product and the responsibility of this product is on behalf of Parallels. I also noticed that the original product (Kaspersky Antivirus 5.5 for Linux Mailservers) is not officially approved by Kaspersky for Ubuntu Linux:
http://support.kaspersky.com/en/unix_mail?level=3

Very interesting: The minimum hardware requirements with at least 32MB of RAM


Kaspersky Antivirus 5.6 for Linux Mailservers is the first release with explicit Ubuntu support:
http://support.kaspersky.com/en/linux_mail_56?level=3

Internally it seems that Plesk is using version 5.5 but as this is an oem product, it is not definitely clear.

Regards,
Christoph

 

[IgorG]

Very interesting: The minimum hardware requirements with at least 32MB of RAM

But 1Gb for 5.6 version Very big and suspicious difference...