sophos 3.66 to 3.67, load jumps?

Stephen Lee splee at PLEXIO.COM
Tue Mar 11 22:04:37 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:27, Julian Field wrote:
> 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...

I don't appear to have this problem:

Mar 11 11:29:52 mail MailScanner[9973]: New Batch: Found 5 messages
waiting
Mar 11 11:29:52 mail MailScanner[9973]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
2921 bytes
Mar 11 11:29:52 mail MailScanner[9973]: Spam Checks: Starting
Mar 11 11:29:54 mail MailScanner[9973]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Mar 11 11:29:56 mail MailScanner[9973]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
I'm using MS 4.13-3, Sophos 3.67. I believe Julian already fixed the
harmless batch count bug so only 1 message was scanned, not 5.

Stephen



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