RE: [cobalt-users] CPU Heavily Loaded - RaQ4R

["Richard Sidlin" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:34:29 -0000, Richard Sidlin wrote
> > Over the past two weeks, I have been getting a lot of these 
> warnings. 
> > The general area is about 5-7% load average. At the same time, I 
> > installed a number of patches (about 7 or 8 - was a bit behind on 
> > them). Would any of those patches account for this? I run 
> MailScanner 
> > with Sophos and Spam Assassin.
> 
> Wouldn't account for two weeks ago, but with the latest email 
> virus in the wild, I've seen more of a performance hit due to 
> extra processing with MailScanner. Check load stats with 
> 'top' to see what applications are hitting your CPU the 
> hardest ... there was a troublesome apache patch recently ... 
> could be that, or it could be just MailScanner/SpamAssassin 
> doing it's job.

Thanks. Looking at Top, the Sophos Sweep process seems to hit the processor quite hard. Would you know if this has been changed
recently. I think I downloaded the latest engine at about the same time.

Richard



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