SophosSAVI same speed as Sweep ?

[Julian Field]

At 23:40 12/04/2004, you wrote:
>I'm having problems getting SophosSAVI to run faster than Sweep.  Is it
>really that much faster?

It removes the startup overhead of cranking up the "sweep" binary. In some
versions on some systems that can be several seconds per scan.

>I have also noticed that when running SophosSAVI in addition to the
>original 10 children that start up, there are lots of MailScanner
>processes firing up & down like crazy!  Is this normal?

Quite normal. Don't worry, there is method in my madness (so I'm told :-)


>Any comments/help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>- Mike
>
>--------------------------------
>            Mike Lang
>     Network Security Analyst
>University of Connecticut - UITS
>           860-486-6816
>--------------------------------

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