Not so much a statement but a minor rant...
I've been complaining to our IT systems director (structural engineering company of 6000 staff) about our antivirus software for about 2 years. Every wednesday it was checking for / running updates using >80% of the CPU for about 3 hours... you can imagine how much of a pain that is to have a practically useless PC for that period.
on top of that our analysis software generates huge temporary files (often up to 1GB), not being optimised for multi core systems it finds itself fighting with the AV software, usually getting <20% of one core for the analysis.
then this morning a break through, over the weekend we've been migrated to a new AV system (and all traces of the old one removed, so clearly a nice tidy install).
I ran a small model I've had plently of experience with over the last few weeks and was stunned by the result.
This morning (so suprised I re-ran it with a stop watch) = 46 seconds
Last week > 10minutes (usually go for a coffee or work on another project by hand during these analysis runs)
Had another try running off the network (so hitting a 100mbps bandwith limit) = 5:23
I knew that to old AV software was strangling performance, but even still I honestly couldn't believe how much of a change this is.
I feel so vindicated, but at the same time incredibly frustrated that all my comments fell on deaf ears.
I've been complaining to our IT systems director (structural engineering company of 6000 staff) about our antivirus software for about 2 years. Every wednesday it was checking for / running updates using >80% of the CPU for about 3 hours... you can imagine how much of a pain that is to have a practically useless PC for that period.
on top of that our analysis software generates huge temporary files (often up to 1GB), not being optimised for multi core systems it finds itself fighting with the AV software, usually getting <20% of one core for the analysis.
then this morning a break through, over the weekend we've been migrated to a new AV system (and all traces of the old one removed, so clearly a nice tidy install).
I ran a small model I've had plently of experience with over the last few weeks and was stunned by the result.
This morning (so suprised I re-ran it with a stop watch) = 46 seconds
Last week > 10minutes (usually go for a coffee or work on another project by hand during these analysis runs)
Had another try running off the network (so hitting a 100mbps bandwith limit) = 5:23
I knew that to old AV software was strangling performance, but even still I honestly couldn't believe how much of a change this is.
I feel so vindicated, but at the same time incredibly frustrated that all my comments fell on deaf ears.
Facebook
Twitter