On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Software that needs resources will use as many of them as it can. >> Using less of them but leaving the rest of the system idle is >> pointless. > > Capping the usage at 80-90% of available processing power, however, is not > as useless.
If the system has no other use for a resource, why not put it to work? What benefit is there to putting the system in an idle loop for 10-20% of wall clock time? Conversely, if you're trying to get other work done, having only 10-20% of system resources available to you likely isn't going to be enough. I think what you're really looking for is lower priority. If the system has nothing else to do, might as well use it to make the AV get done quicker. But if the system has anything else to do, put resources towards that, and make the AV wait. Yah? (Again, this is for the "full system scan" scenario. On-access scanning has different parameters.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
