Hi, currently the latest (as of today, 14 February 2021) version of Sophos Endpoint for macOS on 11.2.1 Big Sur causes issues with operating system performance.Specifically the Sophos Network Extension process, keeps ballooning in RAM until it gets around twice or more the system RAM of the system, causing other applications to crash or hang, until it cleans itself of RAM, possibly because the process runs out of memory and restarts itself.I was wondering if there's any knowledge of this or fix in the works.
I'm happy to say that we have identified the issue with the high CPU usage for the Sophos Network Extension process and will be included in our GA release.
Unfortunately there won't be an update to…
Confirming this EAP cripples OSX 11.1 and 11.2.1