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If you have an IT department, they will insist on AV software just to cover their ass. Noone there wants to be the one explaining to a clueless boss that they

If you have an IT department, they will insist on AV software just to cover their ass. Noone there wants to be the one explaining to a clueless boss that they didn't use av software og something bad happened.

mcny 7y ago
I don't mind having an antivirus on Windows but I despise having real-time file scanning when I have a computer with spinning rust. Node Package Manager install or yarn install creates thousands of tiny files and my understanding is that these "antivirus" software try to scan each file at the same time as npm wants to create them or in earlier days even as subversion was trying to do something. I imagine things are different for people on PCIe NVMe SSD but Windows (or any modern OS I guess with any antivirus) is not so good if we are on spinning rust. I think if we insist on real-time file scanning, the least we can do is provide at least a decent SATA SSD like the Samsung 860 EVO and adequate RAM to avoid thrashing.
- andai 7y ago
  I was using a spinny disk for a few weeks and I upgraded back to SSD the other day. The difference is incredible. Browser used to take 10 seconds to start, now it's instant. The only good thing is, I got so frustrated waiting constantly that I optimized my software to minimize IO (eg disabled browser history) so now it's even faster.
  - unnouinceput 7y ago
    I will blow your mind when I will tell you to use a RamDisks for fastest run times wink wink
    - pdimitar 7y ago
      If you use a Samsung SATA SSD, just enable RAPID mode in the Samsung Magician program. The different with and without is huge. (Enabling RAPID mode basically creates an invisible RAM disk and uses it under the hood.)
      - leetcrew 7y ago
        is this different than just allocating swap space on the SSD?
        pdimitar 7y ago
        Very different. The RAPID mode is basically a RAM disk under the hood -- it does its best to cache often-accessed files and temporarily prioritise loading big files on demand (which is the use-case of games, they often have huge files with textures and sound). Gotta say, it works amazingly well. I am getting almost PCI/NVMe speeds on my SATA III SSD.
        mcny 7y ago
        > The RAPID mode is basically a RAM disk under the hood -- it does its best to cache often-accessed files and temporarily prioritise loading big files on demand (which is the use-case of games, they often have huge files with textures and sound). Sorry if this is obvious but does that mean we will have a better experience with a total of 32GB RAM than say 8GB? I have not worked with RAM disk before...
- leetcrew 7y ago
  windows defender does the same thing by default. first step setting up my workstation for c++ dev is always specifically excluding my source code directories and msvc.exe and friends. sometimes takes me a few days to notice all the ancillary processes that will trigger the file scanning and whitelist them. otherwise it eats a whole logical core every time I kick off a compile.

mcny 7y ago

I don't mind having an antivirus on Windows but I despise having real-time file scanning when I have a computer with spinning rust. Node Package Manager install or yarn install creates thousands of tiny files and my understanding is that these "antivirus" software try to scan each file at the same time as npm wants to create them or in earlier days even as subversion was trying to do something. I imagine things are different for people on PCIe NVMe SSD but Windows (or any modern OS I guess with any antivirus) is not so good if we are on spinning rust. I think if we insist on real-time file scanning, the least we can do is provide at least a decent SATA SSD like the Samsung 860 EVO and adequate RAM to avoid thrashing.

andai 7y ago
I was using a spinny disk for a few weeks and I upgraded back to SSD the other day. The difference is incredible. Browser used to take 10 seconds to start, now it's instant. The only good thing is, I got so frustrated waiting constantly that I optimized my software to minimize IO (eg disabled browser history) so now it's even faster.
- unnouinceput 7y ago
  I will blow your mind when I will tell you to use a RamDisks for fastest run times wink wink
  - pdimitar 7y ago
    If you use a Samsung SATA SSD, just enable RAPID mode in the Samsung Magician program. The different with and without is huge. (Enabling RAPID mode basically creates an invisible RAM disk and uses it under the hood.)
    - leetcrew 7y ago
      is this different than just allocating swap space on the SSD?
      - pdimitar 7y ago
        Very different. The RAPID mode is basically a RAM disk under the hood -- it does its best to cache often-accessed files and temporarily prioritise loading big files on demand (which is the use-case of games, they often have huge files with textures and sound). Gotta say, it works amazingly well. I am getting almost PCI/NVMe speeds on my SATA III SSD.
        mcny 7y ago
        > The RAPID mode is basically a RAM disk under the hood -- it does its best to cache often-accessed files and temporarily prioritise loading big files on demand (which is the use-case of games, they often have huge files with textures and sound). Sorry if this is obvious but does that mean we will have a better experience with a total of 32GB RAM than say 8GB? I have not worked with RAM disk before...
leetcrew 7y ago
windows defender does the same thing by default. first step setting up my workstation for c++ dev is always specifically excluding my source code directories and msvc.exe and friends. sometimes takes me a few days to notice all the ancillary processes that will trigger the file scanning and whitelist them. otherwise it eats a whole logical core every time I kick off a compile.