Re: Increasing performance of PB5.0

I'm no expert on AV software, but don't they also look at exes and dlls when
they change or are written to disk?

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"Remi de Gravelaine" <gravelaine at aton dash sys dot fr> wrote in message
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Yes Michael, this RAID seems to be a good one.

FYI, I use AVG Free and am very satisfied with it: simple, efficient and
not very intrusive. I have a PB Workspace that Clean Builds a
reasonably-sized CEPC image (5.8 MB NK.BIN) in 11'45" with the AVG
"shield" active. When I disactivate this shield, it takes 10'05 instead.
So the difference (100 s / 605 s = 16.5 %) is significant but endurable.
My PC is a 2-years old Dell Dimension 5100, Dual-core P4 @ 3 GHz, 1GB RAM,
Maxtor 6L160MO (Serial ATA).

So I have to talk with our network administrator to disable the virus
checker for the windows ce folder on my PC.

Keep in mind that with AV software, most of the time is spent checking
that executing files do not contain viruses. In the case of Platform
Builder, these files can be well known: batch and exe files in WINCEROOT
but also exe files in X:\Program Files\Windows CE Platform Builder and the
mostly spawned X:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe.

HTH
Remi


"Michael Reim" <nospamreim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a
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Raid Controller LSI MR-320-2E 128MB RAID PCI-E 8x.

Raid 0 with two disk of type HD SCSI U320 68p Fujitsu Alleg9 147G 10K.



I'm pretty sure that in my case the disk is not the bottle neck, because
there are not so much disk accesses during this 5 minutes of inactivity.

But I now temporarily disabled the Virus Checker and this improved the
build from over 15 minutes to about 9 minutes.

So I have to talk with our network administrator to disable the virus
checker for the windows ce folder on my PC.


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"Remi de Gravelaine" <gravelaine at aton dash sys dot fr> schrieb im
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Hi,

What on earth is it doing this 5 minutes?

Mostly file copies, but involving quite a lot of intermediary processes
each time a file of bunch of files is copied, e.g.
pbspawn.exe/cmd.exe/nmake.exe/cmd.exe/xcopy.exe.

As Vinz said, disks seems to be the key.
How is your RAID 0 done? How many disks in it? What kind of disks? What
stripe size?

Also, an unefficient antivirus software can cost you a significant
amount of time. Did you try to disable your Virus Checker just for a
build? What is the gain?

Remi







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