There have been reports (especially at Einstein) of AV causing apps to fail 
with "Too many exit(0)s" and zero runtime - in which case, the apps probably 
never make it as far as memory in the first place.

I think this is mainly the sort of heuristic scanner which, if it finds 
suspicious behaviour (intensive CPU activity, network communications, no 
user interactive window...) requires the user to approve the app before it 
first runs - and if the user is asleep in bed at the time, the app gets 
quarantined.

If this sort of thing is going on on one core, other projects on other cores 
are going to end up being suspended by a CC shutdown.


> I'm confused.
> Do the BOINC apps remain in memory while AV is running?
> Virus checkers typically run when an app is started,
> not when it's suspended/resumed.
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Maybe that will work.  But I already have leave applications in memory
>> checked.
>>
>> How about:
>> If apps are suspended because of CPU usage, leave them in memory
>> -- D
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> I have had to stop using the suspend because of CPU usage.  When BOINC
>>> starts a software program the AV software cranks up for about 30 seconds
>>> and uses the entire CPU for an AV check of the software being started -
>>> which shuts down BOINC processing.  A few seconds later BOINC tries 
>>> again
>>> with the same result.  Rinse and repeat forever.
>>>
>>> There are several possible solutions:
>>>
>>> 1)  Provide an exceptions list for CPU usage so that AV software is not
>>> counted.
>>> 2)  Provide a setting for the minimum duration of CPU usage before BOINC
>>> processing is terminated.
>>> 3)  Provide a delay while starting any task during which no check of CPU
>>> usage is made so that AV reading the application will not trigger a
>>> shutdown.
>>> 4)  Have the users disable the feature so that AV won't interfere.
>>>
>>> jm7
>>>
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