Memory leakage / management

[CountyWorker]

Hi!

Running hawk_process on a Linux system scanning random local files eats up a lot of memory until the terminal process kills the hawk_scanner process. Sometimes the system freezes.

Nevertheless, a great program! Thanks!

[rohitcoder]

Hi @CountyWorker,

We recommend using blacklist approach to exclude file extensions which you don't want to consider, you can find a reference here - https://github.com/rohitcoder/hawk-eye/blob/7126fc45635def7d0706f62d203d2d869d40297b/connection.yml.sample#L108

if you give it an entire folder to scan without having a exclude_patterns it will scan everything.

[CountyWorker]

Thanks, will do that.