Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: From: "Robert Melchers" To: Subject: Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:01:34 -0000 Message-ID: <000501c09760$30a5a2f0$c9a87995@drives.eurotherm.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Robert Melchers wrote: > > This may or may not be relevant, We have recently upgraded our Virus scanner to McAfee Virus Scan 4.5 from 4.x. our build of > 200 files has now slowed by > a factor of 5-10x. The only answer is to exit the scanner, The effect can be seen using Task Manager, with the scanner active Make (and its sub processes) > get about 40% of the processor, and the Idle process the rest, exit this scanner and Make get 100%. The source directory and Tools directories are both > excluded from the scanner. > This is a known FAQed issue. Earnie. I knew about the FAQ but I never noticed the slow down until the latest scanner was installed. My guess is that their old problem is back again. Robert. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple