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[ericlawson]

Hi. After testing spamitback pretty well, I have identified two bugs.

1)Memory Leak: When running spamitback, it drains down my memory from 400MB to about 10MB over the course of an hour. The only way to reclaim this memory is to close the application. I can run various memory scrubbers, but they don't free much. I get this most often if I only run type 4 (spam vampire). My guess is that the memory used to read in webste images is not being freed (or is not being freed in a timely manner). Regardless, it prevents me from being able to do anything else while running spamitback.

2)Modal Dialog error: If you open spamitback then click 'start' and then click on 'personal list', you cannot close the window. This is because it requires you to stop spamitback, which you can't because it is a modal dialog. You should disable that button when spamitback is active or change it to a modeless window.

[SpamItBack]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

Hmm... We'll look into the first one, there shouldn't be a memory leak (i.e., the way we've done it with the spamvampire is it should be freed)... Are you viewing the HTTP traffic when using that option? If so, do you still get the same message when you've disabled viewing HTTP traffic?

2. Hmm... Extremely strange error. We've had a few people say that, but cannot seem to duplicate that here (and have several different systems its being tested on...)

[ericlawson]

Thanks for the response.

Last night I started spamitback to see what the memory footprint is at initialization time, and then what the memory footprint is after 12 hours of operation.

Here are the stats for my system:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
512MB ram
Windows XP Pro SP2

What I did was turn launch spamitback, turned off types 1, 2, and 3, clicked start and let it run for twelve hours. I used an application named "Memturbo" to measure the amount of available RAM.

Before starting spamitback I had 335MB of available free RAM, When I started spamitback initially,it dropped to about 220MB of available free RAM. After running for 12 hours, the computers available memory was down to 4MB, was heavily swapping, and was generally unusable until I terminated spamitback (at which time available memory went back up to 385MB).

I sounds like there is some instance where memory is not being freed, but is only identifiable by running it for long periods.

Hope that helps.

[KryogeniK]

[quote]2)Modal Dialog error: If you open spamitback then click 'start' and then click on 'personal list', you cannot close the window. This is because it requires you to stop spamitback, which you can't because it is a modal dialog. You should disable that button when spamitback is active or change it to a modeless window.[/quote]

I purchased the full version of this today and have come across this problem too. Not too much of a bother as it continues to run in the background ok, but will require a forced shutdown to close it and I hope this doesn't cause any problems.

Kry

[SpamItBack]

A forced shutdown should be no problem, if required.