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Chuck Kirschman wrote: > Thanks for the info. We don't run AV on our CVS servers. It is > pointless since the only way to put anything on the box is via CVS, and > there any binaries are stored as text so the AV can't find anything in > the repositories anyway. It took a little while to convince the > hardware guys of this, but I've found that installing AV's, even when > they are completely turned off, can make a 10-20% performance difference > when reading from disk. And that's just for the ones where I was able > to gather data; some of them led to crashes, hangs, or blue screens. I agree about AVs.. you wouldn't believe the number of problems they've caused me... :) If you can find a usage pattern that causes the problem then we can probably find a way to work around it (unless it's really odd).. normal cvs behaviour never should because the everything should shutdown cleanly. Tony