On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:02:43 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 10 July 2008 09:03, Jim Henderson wrote:
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I don't know of ANY platform where on-access scanning takes 30% of the system's resources. If that's the state of things on Linux, then there's an architectural problem in how it's being done.
I've seen abominations like this on Windows (where at one job, the IT infrastructure management mandated a A-V program for all Windows desktops and attempted to prevent users from disabling it).
It depends greatly on the kind of use you make of your system. If you're doing software development, say, where common activities such as rebuilding a large program can cause hundreds or thousands of files to be accessed, the A-V scanning (highly redundant and manifestly unnecessary) can take more time by a wide margin than the actual work of the program that accesses the files.
I could see that in special use cases that could happen, but I haven't ever seen it be *the norm* for a platform. Given enough motivation, one could make *any* system crawl with a fairly little bit of effort. In college, we wrote a program to "kill" Sun workstations (actually had a valid reason to use it as well on a few occasions) by malloc'ing all the memory in the machine. Fun to watch on SLC (diskless) workstations. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org