Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X)

Anthony Foglia afoglia@physics.ucsb.edu
Thu Oct 6 21:11:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, wszumera@borgwarner.com wrote:

> I'm using CA Antivirus which is bundled with ZoneAlarm, I told it
> (antivirus) to exclude my C:\cygwin directory from being scanned.  That
> really helped performance a lot.

 	That was one of the first things I tried, and it had no effect. 
I can still see the virus scan process hog CPU time.  In fact, the help 
files say the "scan targets" option is for the system scans, not the 
on-access scanning.

--Anthony

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