[Amsn-devel] CRITICAL bug

[Lz]

Well, i had to use that subject since i've been "attacked" again today.

It's about what Youness said, everytime contact list gets redrawn, amsn takes a lot of mb's memory (in my case it takes like 2mb). A couple days ago when i woke up my computer was completely frozen, i managed to run "top" and (half an hour later) i saw amsn was taking 76% memory (between ram and swap that means like more than 1Gb memory). My computer had not unfrozen until i managed to kill wish (took about five minutes for the shell to manage that order, lol).

Today when i woke up, my computer was frozen and stuck again, i couldn't identify to the screensaver, and neither i could kill x windows nor switch to console, so i had to telnet from another computer (took about 5 minutes to login) and kill wish from there.

I found out a contact of mine has a buggy client or so, which makes him switch from busy to no activity and from no activity to busy like three/four times a minute when he's away. He left him computer turned on tonight and my amsn had to redraw the contact list some hundreds of time...

This should be fixed, since it can cause a DoS and completely paralyze a system in a couple minutes (imagine someone switching him nickname high speed, so every amsn in him contact list collapses the system...).

I hope someone heard me now :P

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