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Why does it stop scanning for extended periods?

RobLewis

I started SAV on "Scan Local Drives" this morning (it's late afternoon now) and so far it's scanned less than 8% of my 5 million files. Oddly, it seems to just stop scanning for extended periods: the "Items Remaining" counter stops decrementing and nothing happens for several minutes. Then it starts up again. 

At this rate, it's going to take days to complete a scan, and meanwhile my system is rather sluggish. I don't even know if it's worth waiting for it to finish. 

Anyone else seen this? 

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    I have a lot of files, and that's only just over 1.5 million on 3 TB of storage space (much less than 5 million!).  I haven't noticed any pauses, or even any sluggishness.  What Mac are you using?  If you only have two cores that may slow things down.  I'm running EIGHT BOINC processes at around 98% each with my Quad Core i7, and the SophosAVAgent Process is hovering around 40-56% (That actually slows down my 8 BOINC processes to around 87%).

    I would think that the sluggish feel may be due to an I/O bottle neck or just simply having only 2 cores to work with.  The I/O bottle neck could be the cause of the "Items Remaining" counter to pause, are you using Swap memory (free memory down to ~10MB)?  If so, increase your RAM; that is still the easiest, most effective, and inexpensive way to improve performance, especially if you don't have enough.  4GB for Snow Leopard seems to be the norm now.  I have 16GB and Mac OS X has no problem using all of it.  The more you have, the more it will use to increase performance!

    Tom

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    I have a lot of files, and that's only just over 1.5 million on 3 TB of storage space (much less than 5 million!).  I haven't noticed any pauses, or even any sluggishness.  What Mac are you using?  If you only have two cores that may slow things down.  I'm running EIGHT BOINC processes at around 98% each with my Quad Core i7, and the SophosAVAgent Process is hovering around 40-56% (That actually slows down my 8 BOINC processes to around 87%).

    I would think that the sluggish feel may be due to an I/O bottle neck or just simply having only 2 cores to work with.  The I/O bottle neck could be the cause of the "Items Remaining" counter to pause, are you using Swap memory (free memory down to ~10MB)?  If so, increase your RAM; that is still the easiest, most effective, and inexpensive way to improve performance, especially if you don't have enough.  4GB for Snow Leopard seems to be the norm now.  I have 16GB and Mac OS X has no problem using all of it.  The more you have, the more it will use to increase performance!

    Tom

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