sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Julian Field]

The XRS version works at the speed of the old versions, as expected.
real    0m0.619s
user    0m0.600s
sys     0m0.020s

At 19:51 11/03/2003, you wrote:
> > Can people get onto Sophos with these startup timing figures? They are
> > appalling.
>
>I did and here is the recommendation from Sophos. First, they are not
>admitting
>that it is an "issue".

Hopefully if enough people hassle them, they will agree that it is!

>  If you request it, which I did, you can install their
>XRS version. XRS, according to Sophos, is the old engine with the new IDEs. I
>installed it on two systems and the performance is much better now. Actually
>ver good according to my systems. Can more people test it now? I have it
>installed now on a production system and the load is normal.
>
>Here is the e-mail from Sophos:
>
>-----------
>
>As requested
>
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/aix.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/digitalunix.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/freebsd.aout.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/freebsd.elf.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/hpux.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/linux.alpha.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/linux.intel.libc5.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/linux.ppc.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/linux.s390.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/scoopenserver.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/scounixware.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/solaris.intel.tar.Z
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/products/full/xrs/solaris.sparc.tar.Z
>
>
>Regards,
>
>MGD
>---------
>
>Marco
>
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