sophossavi errors on Red Hat Enterprise version 4

[Martin Hepworth]

Ray

from my misty memory I remember Julian (or someone) commenting on this
and finding out that Sophos themselves have a problem with 64bit Linux
kernels, and are working to fox it sometime.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Ray Gardener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded one of my servers to RHEL version 4. After bringing
> this into use I noticed a problem with load on the server going up
> dramatically. On inspection I saw a mailscanner process consuming 1.4GB of
> memory. This was causing the system to page memory frantically!!!.
> Looking in the log files I saw indications that sophossavi was seeing some
> of the mail as a denial of service attack and noticed that certain files
> from my incoming spool file were not been processed. However some of the
> files were been processed.  I switched the scanner type from sophossavi to
> sophos and these files were cleared and the problems with memory and load
> haven't reoccurred. Thinking that there was some problem with Savi-Perl I
> downloaded the latest version and recompiled it. It ran make OK; but on
> "make test" I got the following message below. [At the end of this message
> are the details of my system and version of mailscanner] Obviously I am OK
> using sophos but would like sophossavi to work - Has anyone got this
> working under RHEL 4 or had similar problem (with hopefully a fix)?
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/use....Can't load
> '/home/cisrag/SAVI-Perl-0.30/blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so' for module SAVI:
> libsavi.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
>  at t/use.t line 8
> Compilation failed in require at t/use.t line 8.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/use.t line 8.
> t/use....dubious
>         Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> DIED. FAILED test 1
>         Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
> Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> t/use.t      255 65280     1    2 200.00%  1
> Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/1 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> System details
>  uname -a
> Linux coffee.shu.ac.uk 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 8 14:29:47 EDT
> 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 2Gb memory dual Xeon system
> Running Red hat Enterprise Edition version 4
>
> MailScanner version is 4.40.11
>
>
> --
> Ray Gardener
> CIS
> Sheffield Hallam University
> Telephone: 0114 225 4926
> Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
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