sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Julian Field]

At 16:19 11/03/2003, you wrote:
>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.

If I was being really cynical, I might think they were intentionally
nobbling systems which use their command-line scanner, encouraging people
to use their over-priced mailmonitor package instead.

Of course all that will really happen is that they lose customers to their
competitors...
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Julian Field
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