F-Secure Greedy?

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Has anyone had issues with this AV gobbling up resources in task
manager and causing disk thrashing? I have investigated causes of disk
thrashing and viewed Task Manager and can only see F-Secure as the
suspect?
Its a XP SP3 Dell Dimension 5000, 512 RAM
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you need to add more ram(at least another 512)
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Has anyone had issues with this AV gobbling up resources in task
manager and causing disk thrashing? I have investigated causes of disk
thrashing and viewed Task Manager and can only see F-Secure as the
suspect?
Its a XP SP3 Dell Dimension 5000, 512 RAM
 
From: <[email protected]>

| Has anyone had issues with this AV gobbling up resources in task
| manager and causing disk thrashing? I have investigated causes of disk
| thrashing and viewed Task Manager and can only see F-Secure as the
| suspect?
| Its a XP SP3 Dell Dimension 5000, 512 RAM

512MB is very little RAM.
That's your problem. RAM is cheap Today. Buy it.
 
From: <[email protected]>

| Has anyone had issues with this AV gobbling up resources in task
| manager and causing disk thrashing? I have investigated causes of disk
| thrashing and viewed Task Manager and can only see F-Secure as the
| suspect?
| Its a XP SP3 Dell Dimension 5000, 512 RAM

512MB is very little RAM.
That's your problem.  RAM is cheap Today.  Buy it.
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I have the same issue previously with Kaspersky internet security
version 2009. that one PC that have only 256 of RAM was so slow ...
That when I added another chip to make it 512, it improved
dramatically the performance of the PC...
Then lately with the latest Kaspersky version 2010, 512 Mb is
insufficient that I had to upgrade it to 1 Gb .
It might be the same reason with F secure.....?
But there are still AVs that are not resource hungry... such as the
NOD32.
...they seems to work well in older PCs with less RAM capacity?


Roy
 
From: "Roy" <[email protected]>


| I have the same issue previously with Kaspersky internet security
| version 2009. that one PC that have only 256 of RAM was so slow ...
| That when I added another chip to make it 512, it improved
| dramatically the performance of the PC...
| Then lately with the latest Kaspersky version 2010, 512 Mb is
| insufficient that I had to upgrade it to 1 Gb .
| It might be the same reason with F secure.....?
| But there are still AVs that are not resource hungry... such as the
| NOD32.
| ..they seems to work well in older PCs with less RAM capacity?


256MB is the minimum just to RUN the WinXP OS w/o any software.
 
From: "Roy" <[email protected]>

| I have the same issue previously with Kaspersky internet security
| version 2009. that one PC that have only 256 of RAM was so slow ...
| That when I added another chip to make it 512, it improved
| dramatically the performance of the PC...
| Then lately with the latest Kaspersky version 2010, 512 Mb is
| insufficient that I had to upgrade it to 1 Gb .
| It might be the same reason with F secure.....?
| But there are still AVs that are not resource hungry... such as the
| NOD32.
| ..they seems to work well  in older PCs with less RAM  capacity?

256MB is the minimum just to RUN the WinXP OS w/o any software.
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Theoritically yes but practically
well I can run a number of softwares in an old PC with just 256 mb of
RAM including video players, office tools, even some minor
games....... I counted about 20 installed softwares in that particular
PC...including the NOD32...
I tested Kaspersky Avira premium, Bitdefender, AVG and it drastically
slowed down the PC but not with NOD32....


Roy

Roy
 
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