(CAS) filePro Speed on Windows 200x Server...FOLLOW UP

[Chris Sellitto]

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Follow up.

Steve,
You hit the nail right on the head.  We did in fact change to Symantec Antivirus
version 10.0.2.2000, modified the settings to exclude the network, and various
folders (such as the PFTMP folder), and this sped up the performance considerably.
It was literally like night and day.

We also set the PFIGN environment variable to ignore all drives except the one that
filePro uses.  Doing that helped us with a recent issue we had where a mapped drive
to a server that had recently went down was causing performance issues with filePro.
We removed that drive from the PFIGN environment variable, and it solved the performance
problem.

Again, thank you all for you quick responses, and suggestions.

Christopher Sellitto
VP Computer Operations
Guaranteed Returns


> Chris,

> You are doing yourself and your company a disservice if you are still at
> such an old, outdated release of Norton (now Symantec) A-V Corp. Edition.
> The current version is 10.0.2.  It can scan for and find things other that
> viruses and is a much faster scanning engine than previous versions.  Just
> because you still are receiving the current virus dat files doesn't mean
> your systems are protected as well as they could be with the current
> version.

> By the way, are your workstations set to 'watch' the network as well as the
> diskette and CD drives for viruses.  Try turning off the network option on a
> PC or two to see if there is a difference.

> This reply was sent to you, not the filePro List.

> Just a thought,
> Steve Wiltsie
> microCONCEPTS Div. multi/user/inc.        Since 1981
> (812) 474-0127                          Fax: (812) 474-0147

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Sellitto" <sellich at guaranteedreturns.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:25 PM
Subject: RE: (CAS) filePro Speed on Windows 200x Server



> Chris Sellitto <sellich at guaranteedreturns.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have a question that has been nagging our company for years now, but we
just put up with it. I will give you some background information to
hopefully help you maybe diagnose the issue.
[...]
> My question is, is there anything that any of you could think of that we
could do, or check that could possibly help make filePro 5.x run faster on a
Windows 200x server? If you need more answers to any questions, please feel
free to ask.
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

> I have notied over the years that Norton Anti-virus
>has been the cause of significant performance hits. Do you
>have this program on your server and/or nodes? What are the
>programs (other than filePro) which are on this network
>(especially programs which load on start-up and "watch"
>everything you do?

Thank you all, so far, for your suggestions.  As I may, or may not have
stated before, we do use Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition (7.60) here.  I
am aware of performance issues with Norton Antivirus, but I don't believe
this is the issue, because it is running on both our test (the one with
filePro 4.8) and production (with filePro 5.0), and the speed difference is
night and day.  Both machines, hardware wise, are almost identical HP
servers.  I will check the other start-up programs that "watch" everything
we do, and see if there might be something there.
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