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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:33:03 +0000, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote: > >Do you have Norton Antivirus installed? That slows file operations down >anything up to 50%. > With Macaffe AV on my own box I can't work at all if I debug an application that does a lot of disk logging... As an example a run that normally takes 4 seconds with AV switched off will be slowed down to upwards of 30 seconds with AV active. This is of course extreme, because during debug the application logs small items to the logfile at a rate of more than 100 writes per second, but nevertheless it shows what AV software can do. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)