Sophos Sweep using a lot of CPU

[Patterson S.R.]

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We had a problem like that at one point - it turned out there was a
big core dump file in /var/spool/mailscanner/incoming (or wherever
your mailscanner working directory is).  Have a look for a core file
in that directory and delete it.

Steve
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Steven Patterson, MSci.  Tel: +44 (0)2380 595810
Electronic Information Systems Support and Development
Computing Services, University of Southampton, UK.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Barker [mailto:A.Barker at UCL.AC.UK]
> Sent: 02 July 2002 15:18
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Sophos Sweep using a lot of CPU
>
>
> 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
> External phone: (+44) 020 7679  2795,  Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406
> Internal phone: x 32795
> Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk
>

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