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sophos av for linux made system slow

Hi Community,

I have installed sophos av for linux on my systemand other systems but after installing i have observed that it made the systems slow.Please help me understand this issue ,is this a know bug ?Is there any fix for this please let me know.

Log:

msg><time>1454415733</time></log>
<log><category>savscand.control.log</category><level>INFO</level><domain>savscand</domain><msg>EXTRA-SCANNER-STARTED</msg><time>1454415739</time></log>

What is extra-scanner-started?How to stop it.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Adil

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0 DouglasLeeder over 8 years ago

If you use the `savlog` program to view the log you will see more understandable messages.

An extra scanning thread is started when the on-access scanner detects that there is a backlog of files that require scanning.

What are the specs of your machine?
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