Sophos Sweep using a lot of CPU

[Adrian Barker]

For the past two weeks we have seen poor performance on one of our
mailscanner machines caused by Sophos sweep using 60% or more CPU for
long periods of time. Has anyone else seen this problem ? We were using
a fairly old version of mailscanner from last year, but upgraded to
3.15-3 today, and also upgraded various Perl modules and Sophos, but
the problem continues.

What is puzzling is that we have a second identical machine, apart from
a different version of mailscanner, which shares the same load, but
this does not have the same problem.  Both machines are Suns and are
not heavily loaded (about 10,000 messages per day each).




Adrian Barker, Information Systems
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk