2010/6/10 Török Edwin <[email protected]>

> On 2010-06-10 21:29, Vivien Raoul wrote:
> > Actually, I'm not sure of what I did ; I couldn't apply the patch with
> > "patch", and I made the changes manually ; but it seems that all the
> free()
> > are in the #if 0 block.
> > What is exactly your patch supposed to do ?
>
> If ClamAV is built with memory pool support (which by default it is on
> Linux), then there is no point in trying to free each individual node
> from the tree (which can be hundreds of thousands).
> Instead they will be all freed by the mpool_destroy().
>
> My guess is that the individual frees need to bring back some data from
> the swap, before actually freeing it. And this is done for each node, so
> it takes a while if you have limited memory, and a slow disk.
>

So if I understood well, your modification implies no free at all ?

>
> How fast is "really fast" though?
>

The force-reload took about 3 to 8 minutes, now it takes less than 1 min
(between 37 and 53s).
I tried it several times, and I did not see memory leeks (the "free" command
shows me normal things).

Regards,
Vivien

>
> Best regards,
> --Edwin
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