On May 1, 2006, at 13:30, Ricardo Oliveira wrote:
John,
I use sophos too, but I though I'd drop the note on a
memory-and-performance-saver: Sophie is a deamon which received the
messages, processos them and returns the result "infected" or "not
infected" instead of forking a new sweep process for every incoming
email.
This resulted in WAY lower memory and CPU usage in my email servers.
How are you invoking Sophos? MailScanner doesn't do its virus scanning
"one message at a time", it does them in bulk batches ... and I'm
pretty sure it gets a very good performance gain for that.
