Kbase 20527: How to avoid performance degradation due to Anti-Virus Software
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/16/2008 |
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Status: Verified
GOAL:
How to avoid performance degradation due to Anti-Virus Software
FIX:
Sometimes the anti-virus software that is being used can cause a performance degradation due to the Auto-Scan feature on the product.
For example, when a prowin32 session is started and a Progress library file with a size of just 80MB is specified, it can take between 2 and 3 minutes to start.
A normal performance level can be achieved if the anti-virus software is disabled or the .pl excluded from the anti-virus files to check (2 to 3 seconds depending upon system specifications).
Many of the anti-virus software companies allow the user to configure the file types that are scanned or excluded with these features.
A recommendation is that virus checking be enabled without the Auto-Scan or exclude Progress files affected by the enabled Auto-Scan option, and do a full scan of the files periodically to maintain a virus free system.