Given Microsoft Security Essentials is free, it's reasonable to assume that over time a significant percentage of Windows machines will have it installed. It would be a shame if people new to or evaluating Pharo were turned off by a known issue that so severely affects performance but has such a simple solution.
I would go so far as to suggest that a message be displayed in the Workspace of the fresh downloaded image for this (and any other similar issues). Regards, Robert Kovacic Henrik Johansen wrote: > > > On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:23 34AM, Robert Kovacic wrote: > >> >> I forgot to ask - should I report this to the Bug List? > > Seems like an issue more suited in a FAQ or something to me, not much > we can really do do "fix" it... > Maybe http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/faq/pharo deserves an entry about this? > > Cheers, > Henry > >> >> >> Robert Kovacic wrote: >>> >>> I am running Microsoft Security Essentials and excluding the Pharo >>> directory from the scan list as you suggested has solved the >>> problem thank >>> you. >>> >>> >>> Gabriel Cotelli wrote: >>>> >>>> Have you any antivirus software running? There's some issues with >>>> NOD32 >>>> (and >>>> any other that I can't remember now) scanning all the time the >>>> changes >>>> file >>>> and making Pharo/Squeak unusable. If it's the problem exclude the >>>> Pharo >>>> directory from the scan list. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Robert Kovacic <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Performance-in-Workspace-tp3772302p3773622.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
