----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Henderson" <hendersj@gmail.com> To: <opensuse@opensuse.org> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:03 PM Subject: [opensuse] Re: A BIG "show stopper" for openSUSE at the corporate level anyway!! On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:35:37 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> 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.
It doesn't have to take 30% of all resources to be intolerably inefficient. If it turns an N usec syscall into a 3N usec syscal, well thats a 300% drop in efficiency. If it turns a syscall that requires N memory transactions into one that requires 3N transactions, thats a 300% drop in efficiency. The more those calls are used, the worse the real-world hit. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org