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[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:35:37 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
>
>   
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jim Henderson
> > <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > If we want people to adopt Linux, we have to not tell them "so this
> > > thing you did with Windows automatically?  You need to do it manually
> > > now.
> > >       
> > No, you say you don't need to do that at all any more, and you get the
> > 30% resources you were devoting to on-demand virus scanning back.
> >     
>
> 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.
>
>   
Have you done benchmarking then? Something like dbench with on access 
scanning turned on vs no access scanning? what were the results?

Joe

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