Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 18:16:01 +0000, Thomas Koenig wrote:

MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:23:34 +0000, Terje Mathisen wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:00:28 -0500, BGB wrote:
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Some stuff say builds should not take quite this long, but this is what
I am seeing...

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On Windows, the filesystem can be quite a bottleneck.
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Said bottleneck is almost always related to anti-virus programs, if you
are accessing a lot of files the latency of the scanner green light can
be pretty awful.

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People still run anti-virus software ?!? Gasp....no wonder we need
5GHz processors.......

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You might have noticed the recent Crowdstrike fiasco...
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And yes, a it is absolutely astonishing that people are willing to
accept the performance degradation this brings.
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I don't run them anymore...

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Do you use Windows?

Yes

If so, did you disable Microsoft Defender?

Don't know. Once I get windows configured like I want (and BTW W7 was
the
best version ever) I take the drive to a linux machine and DD it making
recovery a 5 minute affair instead of a 4 hour affair. ...