ANYONE ??? Uninstall and install the new version. {Scanned }

[Furnish, Trever G]

> I have Version 4.22-5. I have to reboot my mail server everyweek do to
> memory problems with Mailscanner.

No offense, but I sincerely doubt that.  At the very least, if you *have* to
reboot to clear the problem, then the problem is absolutely NOT with
mailscanner but is instead with your OS.  When an application exits, the OS
should clean up all memory used by it - if it fails to do so, the fault
belongs to the OS, not the application.  In other words, instead of
rebooting, you ought to just restart MailScanner.

But mailscanner also has an option in its config file that tells it how
often to restart itself - what do you have that set to?

And it might help if you let us know exactly what you mean by "memory
problems".

--
Trever


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David [mailto:maillist at COMPUTER-MEDIC.US]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: ANYONE ??? Uninstall and install the new version. {Scanned}
> {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> I have Version 4.22-5. I have to reboot my mail server everyweek do to
> memory problems with Mailscanner. I would like to upgrade if
> this fixes the
> problem. If it will can I just install over the old version?
> Is there any
> step to upgrade?
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks, David
>
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:14:56 +0100, Spicer, Kevin
> <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK>
> wrote:
>
> > David wrote:
> >> Hello All, I'm running a older version of Mailscanner and
> I'm running
> >> in to the memory leak problem for sometime now. I see that
> there is a
> >> new version out and would like to know how to uninstall the old
> >> version and install the new version. Not so much the new
> version but
> >> if there is anything I should do. I would like to unstall the old
> >> version then install the new one. Also is there anything I
> can do to
> >> stop the memory leak before I make the change to the new version?
> >> Please let me know.
> >
> >
> > The transistion from earlier v4 installs is very easy.  v3
> installs are a
> > little more comp-licated to upgrade.  Which do you have?
> >
> >
> >
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