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Why does it stop scanning for extended periods?

RobLewis

I started SAV on "Scan Local Drives" this morning (it's late afternoon now) and so far it's scanned less than 8% of my 5 million files. Oddly, it seems to just stop scanning for extended periods: the "Items Remaining" counter stops decrementing and nothing happens for several minutes. Then it starts up again. 

At this rate, it's going to take days to complete a scan, and meanwhile my system is rather sluggish. I don't even know if it's worth waiting for it to finish. 

Anyone else seen this? 

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    Ok, I see your complaint is valid, about the pauses.  My scan paused at 1,277,600 (exactly) items remaining.  The SophosAVAgent Process is running 4 threads for a total of 85.6% to 88.4% CPU load.  I suspect it is scanning within a large archive.  Nothing to worry about.  And now (update), the SophosAVAgent root Process is back to around 45% CPU usage and is scanning around 150 files per second.

    Tom

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    Ok, I see your complaint is valid, about the pauses.  My scan paused at 1,277,600 (exactly) items remaining.  The SophosAVAgent Process is running 4 threads for a total of 85.6% to 88.4% CPU load.  I suspect it is scanning within a large archive.  Nothing to worry about.  And now (update), the SophosAVAgent root Process is back to around 45% CPU usage and is scanning around 150 files per second.

    Tom

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