sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Julian Field]

You don't fancy taking this issue up with Sophos support do you?
Would sure help if they didn't nobble their (previously fast) scanner.

Having a complaint from a user of something other than MailScanner would
help quite a bit, I think.

Thanks!

At 16:27 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.
> >
>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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