Experienced it a few times after 0.90 was released (end february / first
half march)... Nothing changed in 0.90.1.
The "nice" thing is, freshclam still kept reporting that updates were
fine, after clamd went dead... Luckily, clam was configured as secondary
scanner in amavis, so mail delivery wasn't also down.
While before 0.90, these problems weren't exhibited, I doubt that
they'll just vanish, after most users will update... from time to time
they'll show their ugly head again, when a mirror experiences
difficulties or the ISP connection is down.
Best solution would be to fix freshclam to bail out gracefully in case
of problems - better a somewhat older database than no one at all.
>
> ISC Handler Marteen told me just a few minutes ago:
>
> "Last night the ClamAV project released a
> new main.cvd, which was about 9 megabytes in size. As many users are still
> using Clamav 0.8, which downloads this file in full, this causes high
> stress for a number of mirrors.
>
> As more users upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9, this problem will disappear with
> future updates. Version 0.9 only transfers the difference between CVDs
> instead of the files in full."
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
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