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Slow launch applications from on-access scanning

dlfuller

I've been experiencing very slow (2-4 minute) launches of several, mainly java applications.  In Activity Monitor, the InterCheck process is running near 100% CPU activity and there are continuous disk reads during these slow launches.

The solution seems to be to globally stop on-access scanning in the preferences.  I tried to just single out some of slow launch applications by adding them to the excluded items list and then turned on-access scanning back on.  But back to very slow launches.

So my question is can just these java applications with their extensive package contents be excluded this way?

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    Thanks for the quick response.  You're right that subsequent launches are quick with on-access scanning turned on.  That is until overnight or the OS X daily maintenance scripts run or something.  Then it is back to the same very slow launch with InterCheck near 100% CPU activity.

    I have one Java problem application in the Excluded Items list, e.g. /Applications/Arduino.app/, but it seems to have no effect with the on-access scanning.  Application included in the list or not makes no difference.  The Resources directory of this application is large mostly from its included 199.3 MB Java sub-directory, if that offers a clue.

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    Thanks for the quick response.  You're right that subsequent launches are quick with on-access scanning turned on.  That is until overnight or the OS X daily maintenance scripts run or something.  Then it is back to the same very slow launch with InterCheck near 100% CPU activity.

    I have one Java problem application in the Excluded Items list, e.g. /Applications/Arduino.app/, but it seems to have no effect with the on-access scanning.  Application included in the list or not makes no difference.  The Resources directory of this application is large mostly from its included 199.3 MB Java sub-directory, if that offers a clue.

    :1002109
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