sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Shane Kelly]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 4:08 pm, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded from sophos 3.66 to 3.67 yesterday and since then, I've
> noticed that my load on my mail server has been much higher than
> before.  Anybody else notice this?  I've dropped the Max Children
> setting from 4 to 2 on my system (Sun E220R, 2 CPUs, Sol 8) and that
> reduced the load.  I wonder what changed in Sophos to make such a
> difference?
	I think it is to do with the way in which sophos now packages its virus 
definition files - the scan time for one message has gone from 1 second to 
seven seconds on my (very small) mail hub.


> --- Jeff Earickson

Regards,
	Shane Kelly

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