Check if process is running

PROCESS="netperf"
if pgrep -x "$PROCESS" > /dev/null; then
echo "$PROCESS Running"
else
echo "$PROCESS Not running"
fi

Limiting clamav memory usage

During a database reload clamd will load the new DB first and then drop the old one. This concurrent database reload strategy allows it to keep scanning files while loading the new database. The drawback is that it requires twice as much memory as during normal operations. As a result the clamd process would keep getting killed.

Starting from ClamAV 0.103.0 you can set ConcurrentDatabaseReload no in your /etc/clamav/clamd.conf to disable this behaviour