From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T01:39:57+09:00
Subject: Slow because of AV? (was: Re: Ruby off the Rails)

On 21.08.2007 18:34, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On 21.08.2007 17:27, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
>>> My only complaint with Ruby tends to be that on Windows, it takes a 
>>> bit of time before the script loads.  But that said, the development 
>>> time with Ruby is fantastic and lets us achieve things very very fast!
>>
>> Did you consider that this might be due to the AV engine your shop uses?
>>
>>> It is likely that a lot of people are just using it on the side to 
>>> get things done quickly and then on to something else?
>>
>> I guess I fall into that category: my main work is Java and databases 
>> but I use Ruby frequently for things like evaluating log files, 
>> generating statistics from them etc.
> 
> The point regarding the AV is interesting.  We're using Symantec Norton 
> AV.  I've never looked at it closely because I started with Rails and 
> everyone on Rails-talk was complaining that Rails took ages on Windows.  
> So, I assumed that it was normal that a script took 4 - 6 seconds to 
> start.  Any pointers what I may be looking for here?

If you can switch off the AV engine and see whether your scripts come up 
faster.  As a minimum you might be able to exclude your Ruby directories 
from scanning.  It all depends on your admins.

Kind regards

	robert