Bitdefender autoupdate problems - request for patch review and hopefully inclusion

Jules Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 11 11:57:48 GMT 2010


I have put in this fix (basically remove a load of stuff from it).
It will be in the next release.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 10/01/2010 23:27, David Nalley wrote:
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> Julian, et al:
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> The bitdefender autoupdate script has recently, when my MS instance
> was under heavy load, caused the machine to OOM itself and restart.
> (the bitdefender-autoupdate instance when I looked in on it was
> consuming 700MB of memory) Searching the list I have seen similar
> complaints as recently as a few months ago.
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-November/093937.html
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-November/094023.html
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-April/091283.html
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>
> Achim Latz submitted a patch to the list a little over a year ago
> which at least in the past few hours of my watching seems to fix the
> issue. This patch doesn't seem to have made it's way into MailScanner,
> and there are no responses to the thread.
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2008-October/088090.html
>
> Is there a possibility this can be reviewed and considered for inclusion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Nalley
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Jules

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