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From: Bill Landry (billl@pointshare.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 2004 - 17:18:40 EST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>

> > Paul, doesn't amavisd-new already handle this? I am running amavisd-new
> > 2.2.1 (saw the same with 2.2.0) with SAVI-Perl 0.30 and I periodically
> > see in my amavis.log, just before SAVI is called:
> >
> > sophos_savi_init: 27137 (64%)
> >
> > I took this to mean that the sophos virus definitions were being
reloaded
> > into memory, is this not the case?
>
> version 2.2.0 (and presumably 2.2.1) by default initialize the SAVI object
> in the children, so each child loads the virus data independently. so,
when
> ever a new child is created, it will load the latest virus data.
>
> With this patch, virus data is only loaded in the parent increasing
> efficiency, and the children automatically exit whenever stale virus data
> is detected reducing the number of messages processed with out-of-date
> protection.

Ah, very good. Please let us know if the patch applies cleanly to 2.2.1.

Thanks!

Bill

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