On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:59, Jason Haar wrote: (I have actually contacted the original poster and they have now resolved the problem. Redundant scanning seemed to be the culprit, although I have not noticed any performance impact when running redundant scanning on my systems. I've just included some rambling thoughts here, feel free to skip this email)
> Well it does simply sound like your system is now too small for the current > software I'm afraid. A year between engine updates is a LONG time - either > McAfee have been very slack - or you have ;-) > Actually, the 4.1.60 engine is the current engine, and has been out for a year now. Based on this, I'd say that they actually got their engine right a long time ago ;-) Just one thing to mention, older engines have been known to generate false positives when used with the newest DAT files. > * look at other AV products. Someone elses may be less hungry than McAfee. > Especically the daemonized ones such as Sophie and Trophie. > Actually, the McAfee (NAI) virus scanner is very resource-light. From what I've seen, it only takes up about 3MB of RAM per instance. > * More hardware! Fixes everything ;-) This could be a bigger machine, or (my > fav) more machines. DNS round-robin does a wonderful job of load balancing. I'm quite fond of "layer 4 switching". It's a bit (or a lot) more expensive, but (IMHO) it beats having only half (or 2/3, or 3/4, depending how many machines are in the cluster) of your email being delivered until the DNS TTLs expire, and load balancing hardware tends to notice failures and act on them a bit faster than humans editing DNS records ;-) Anyway, I'd just like to say a huge "thanks" for this software. If there's any way I can help with q-s v2, please tell me (and the rest of the mailing list!) -- Joel Michael | Phone: +61 7 3367 3555 Systems Administrator | Fax: +61 7 3367 3544 WorldHosting.org Pty. Ltd. | Mobile: +61 408 336 728 http://www.worldhosting.org/ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are 11620 seconds left until I stop working today. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
