version 4.13-3 and system load

[Julian Field]

At 12:33 05/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Julian,
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:22 PM
>Subject: Re: version 4.13-3 and system load
>
>
> > Did you upgrade SpamAssassin at the same time by any chance?
>no
>
> > Did you upgrade Sophos at the same time?
>no
>
>Having said that, the installations were done by untarring the distribution
>and copying the lib docs and bin subdirectories over the original - I don't
>know whether this is relevant.

What about the MailScanner.conf file? I would recommend my new
upgrade_MailScanner_conf script to help with this.

> > At 12:22 05/03/2003, you wrote:
> > >I upgraded to version 4.13-3 from version 4.12 on our three mail hubs
> > >yesterday and today,  and on all machinces I am seeing a vastly increased
> > >system load. All three machines are Sun machines running Solaris. Has
>anyone
> > >else seen this? I am wondering if the new version changes the way that
> > >Sophos (our virus scanner) is called via the wrapper scripts.

The communication with the -wrapper scripts hasn't changed at all, so all I
can suggest is that your configuration is different from what you intended.
As someone else suggested, have you got a different "Spam Lists" setting or
a different "Max Children" setting?
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Julian Field
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