sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Spicer, Kevin]

> 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.
> 
Yeah 3.67 is not good at all, my MailScanner's running 3.66 still - but I've got several machines using samba-vscan that used to quite happily read the virus defs from an NFS share.  When I upgraded them to 3.66 it nearly killed one of the machines (load average went up to high 30's  before I got to it and killed samba.  I've had to go back to installing and updating each machine seperately (not using NFS) and the performance is still noticably poorer.



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