sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

[Ryan Pitt]

I just took a look at the new Sophos CD (March 2003) and there is an XRS
folder which contains the files that are linked to below.
Just thought I would try and save some of you the hassle of trying to
download them, especially those who dont have a username and password
for Sophos.

Regards
Ryan

Julian Field wrote:

> 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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