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Sophos 9.01 Memory Usage out of Control

mikedvzo

Memory Usage seems to be way up with version 9.  I mean really this is insane

SophosScanD 268MB

SophosANtiVirus 157MB

InterCheck 220MB

Sophos UI 12MB

Sophos SXLD 7MB

SophosConfigD 4MB

Sophos Autoupdate 11MB

I add these up and  get 679MB. I just removed it and loaded 8.x latest and get less than 200MB.  That is more than 3 times the amount of memory.  I tried this on a Mac Mini 2012 and a MacBook Pro late 2011 all with 10.8.4

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    stukey wrote:

    Incidentally I tried quitting the 'SophosScanD' process through Activity Monitor and it is immediately restarted. So it doesn't seem like it is possible to safely shutdown that process under 9.0.8?

    Nope, not possible (generally). We register the process with the system (launchd) and ask it to automatically restart the service if it stops.

    You can tell the system to stop it. Can't guarantee our software will be happy about it, we don't generally test with that scenario, but since its your computer you can do whatever you want. I can't say that I recommend it, and the "user beware" warning applies.

    Still want to do it? Run this command:

    sudo launchctl remove com.sophos.scan

    Note that it will still start up automatically when you reboot.

    The changes that I describe for version 9.2 are things that we are testing, and we have a very controlled way to know when its correct to shut down particular daemons.

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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    stukey wrote:

    Incidentally I tried quitting the 'SophosScanD' process through Activity Monitor and it is immediately restarted. So it doesn't seem like it is possible to safely shutdown that process under 9.0.8?

    Nope, not possible (generally). We register the process with the system (launchd) and ask it to automatically restart the service if it stops.

    You can tell the system to stop it. Can't guarantee our software will be happy about it, we don't generally test with that scenario, but since its your computer you can do whatever you want. I can't say that I recommend it, and the "user beware" warning applies.

    Still want to do it? Run this command:

    sudo launchctl remove com.sophos.scan

    Note that it will still start up automatically when you reboot.

    The changes that I describe for version 9.2 are things that we are testing, and we have a very controlled way to know when its correct to shut down particular daemons.

    :1017113

    ---

    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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