NOD32 memory usage

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I just changed (trial versions) from Avast Pro to NOD32.

I am surprised and troubled to discover that while Avast Pro used
about 11,00kb, NOD uses 18,000kb.

Do I have something set wrong in NOD? Should it be using this
much?

Louise
 
louise said:
I just changed (trial versions) from Avast Pro to NOD32.

I am surprised and troubled to discover that while Avast Pro used
about 11,00kb, NOD uses 18,000kb.

Do I have something set wrong in NOD? Should it be using this
much?

Louise
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Louise, I assume you're talking about the Nod32krn service? It's really
unimportant whether or not it's using 11 or 18 MB of memory, unless your
system is very old, has insufficient (or flaky) memory to begin with,
or you are running resident lots of memory hungry applications.

One of my machines has NOD32 installed and is allocating 13 MB to the
NOD kernel.

What's more important is how much "drag" an application puts on your
system. Does NOD slow your system down or appear to interfere with other
applications loading? If not, then 18 MB of memory allocation probably
isn't a factor.
 
Louise, I assume you're talking about the Nod32krn service? It's really
unimportant whether or not it's using 11 or 18 MB of memory, unless your
system is very old, has insufficient (or flaky) memory to begin with,
or you are running resident lots of memory hungry applications.

One of my machines has NOD32 installed and is allocating 13 MB to the
NOD kernel.

What's more important is how much "drag" an application puts on your
system. Does NOD slow your system down or appear to interfere with other
applications loading? If not, then 18 MB of memory allocation probably
isn't a factor.
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I understand your point and the "drag". I assume that drag has more
to do with the way the program is coded and integrated into the
system/programs, than it has to do with how much memory it takes.

I do have a pretty fast system: P4, 3.2, SATA drive and 2 gig 3200
ram. I run speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking)
and that demands a great deal of memory. I also run some other
utilities (Sygate Pro, Winfax Pro, Hotsync, Clipmate etc.).

But so far, just a few hours, it doesn't appear to be putting much
of a drag on the system at all.

Is there a way to really test that? It's hard to do it by feel
because once you know you're looking for it, you're almost trying
to count the milliseconds and for me, I just can't tell anymore.

Louise
 
But so far, just a few hours, it doesn't appear to be putting much
of a drag on the system at all.

Is there a way to really test that?
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There are benchmarking programs around, run them with it off,
and with it on, and compare. I used to have a set, but they'd
be too out-of-date to be useful now, and they were for math-
intensive stuff rather than the kind of things normal users do.
Google might find something.
 
louise said:
I understand your point and the "drag". I assume that drag has more
to do with the way the program is coded and integrated into the
system/programs, than it has to do with how much memory it takes.

I do have a pretty fast system: P4, 3.2, SATA drive and 2 gig 3200
ram. I run speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking)
and that demands a great deal of memory. I also run some other
utilities (Sygate Pro, Winfax Pro, Hotsync, Clipmate etc.).
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Well, you machine doesn't look like it's deficient in power :).
But so far, just a few hours, it doesn't appear to be putting much
of a drag on the system at all.

Is there a way to really test that? It's hard to do it by feel
because once you know you're looking for it, you're almost trying
to count the milliseconds and for me, I just can't tell anymore.

Louise
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Yeah, it's really subjective. But, most of your/our computing experience
will be subjective anyway. NOD is one of the AV utilities highly touted
to run without placing a load on your system, so if it's doing its job,
I'd stick with it.
 
Well, you machine doesn't look like it's deficient in power :).


Yeah, it's really subjective. But, most of your/our computing experience
will be subjective anyway. NOD is one of the AV utilities highly touted
to run without placing a load on your system, so if it's doing its job,
I'd stick with it.
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So far, I'm very impressed with it as compared to the Avast Pro
trial I just removed.

Eset even answered a tech support question in a few hours - and
answered it thoughtfully!

Louise
 
| In article <[email protected]>,
| (e-mail address removed) says...
| > louise wrote:
| >
| > >
| > > I understand your point and the "drag". I assume that drag has
more
| > > to do with the way the program is coded and integrated into the
| > > system/programs, than it has to do with how much memory it takes.
| > >
| > > I do have a pretty fast system: P4, 3.2, SATA drive and 2 gig 3200
| > > ram. I run speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking)
| > > and that demands a great deal of memory. I also run some other
| > > utilities (Sygate Pro, Winfax Pro, Hotsync, Clipmate etc.).
| >
| > Well, you machine doesn't look like it's deficient in power :).
| >
| > >
| > > But so far, just a few hours, it doesn't appear to be putting much
| > > of a drag on the system at all.
| > >
| > > Is there a way to really test that? It's hard to do it by feel
| > > because once you know you're looking for it, you're almost trying
| > > to count the milliseconds and for me, I just can't tell anymore.
| > >
| > > Louise
| >
| > Yeah, it's really subjective. But, most of your/our computing
experience
| > will be subjective anyway. NOD is one of the AV utilities highly
touted
| > to run without placing a load on your system, so if it's doing its
job,
| > I'd stick with it.
| >
| So far, I'm very impressed with it as compared to the Avast Pro
| trial I just removed.
|
| Eset even answered a tech support question in a few hours - and
| answered it thoughtfully!
|
| Louise

Over the last several years, I switched all of my PCs except my E-mail
system from NAV over to F-Prot. Last Fall I removed NAV on that PC and
installed NOD32. What a difference in performance it made. I'd run just
about every version on NAV released since 2.0 in 1995 (plus a lot of
other AV programs). Every virus signature update seemed to add more
bloat to NAV. I tried NAV 2003 and 2004 but went back to 2002. I
recovered 400MB when I uninstalled it!

F-Prot is pretty good but I'm switching over to NOD32 as my main AV on
the rest of my PCs and I'm keeping F-Prot as a backup.

I work a lot with large Excel and Word files. When I have a number of
large files open I turn off my AV because the anti macro virus
protection starts slowing things down. NOD32 is a lot better than NAV in
this area but it still uses resources.

Chas.
 
| In article <[email protected]>,
| (e-mail address removed) says...
| > louise wrote:
| >
| > >
| > > I understand your point and the "drag". I assume that drag has
more
| > > to do with the way the program is coded and integrated into the
| > > system/programs, than it has to do with how much memory it takes.
| > >
| > > I do have a pretty fast system: P4, 3.2, SATA drive and 2 gig 3200
| > > ram. I run speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking)
| > > and that demands a great deal of memory. I also run some other
| > > utilities (Sygate Pro, Winfax Pro, Hotsync, Clipmate etc.).
| >
| > Well, you machine doesn't look like it's deficient in power :).
| >
| > >
| > > But so far, just a few hours, it doesn't appear to be putting much
| > > of a drag on the system at all.
| > >
| > > Is there a way to really test that? It's hard to do it by feel
| > > because once you know you're looking for it, you're almost trying
| > > to count the milliseconds and for me, I just can't tell anymore.
| > >
| > > Louise
| >
| > Yeah, it's really subjective. But, most of your/our computing
experience
| > will be subjective anyway. NOD is one of the AV utilities highly
touted
| > to run without placing a load on your system, so if it's doing its
job,
| > I'd stick with it.
| >
| So far, I'm very impressed with it as compared to the Avast Pro
| trial I just removed.
|
| Eset even answered a tech support question in a few hours - and
| answered it thoughtfully!
|
| Louise

Over the last several years, I switched all of my PCs except my E-mail
system from NAV over to F-Prot. Last Fall I removed NAV on that PC and
installed NOD32. What a difference in performance it made. I'd run just
about every version on NAV released since 2.0 in 1995 (plus a lot of
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As I understand it from reading the FAQs and from a posting here,
you really don't have to run DMON. I suggest this because it might
speed up your Excel and Word difficulties.

It seems that as long as you don't turn off AMON or unselect any of
its default options, you can do without DMON.

Louise
 
* * Chas said:
Over the last several years, I switched all of my PCs except my E-mail
system from NAV over to F-Prot. Last Fall I removed NAV on that PC and
installed NOD32. What a difference in performance it made. I'd run just
about every version on NAV released since 2.0 in 1995 (plus a lot of
other AV programs). Every virus signature update seemed to add more
bloat to NAV. I tried NAV 2003 and 2004 but went back to 2002. I
recovered 400MB when I uninstalled it!
Click to expand...

I tried NAV 2002 also and found it inferior to NAV 2004 as to how the
detection notification worked. It was confusing on 2002, but very clear
on 2004. Most NAV users just leave the program at its default scanner
setting - "Comprehensive file scanning", which means ALL files are
scanned all the time. That slows any system considerably. That's not
really necessary, so I changed my setup to the other setting - "Scan
files using smartscan". There is a box next to that option marked
"Customize". When you click that you can see which files are being
scanned and you can modify the list. I give a manual scan of all files
only once a week.

I also use NOD32 on another system. It has always done well.

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