[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC speed
Ken Page
ken at kenpage.plus.com
Mon Sep 8 12:26:06 BST 2008
In message <gemini.k6um7g0090dad00wk at wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>
Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn
<jn.ml.vac.83 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> Ken Page <ken at kenpage.plus.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> My VRPC SA runs on a Microgital Alpha, no problem until recently when
>> VRPC has slowed to an absolute crawl. It takes 10 minutes to boot into
>> RISC OS and then applications load very slowly. Oddly if I quit VRPC and
>> then restart it, it boots up quickly and any applications I used earlier
>> are up to normal speed, anything different is very slow. Don't know if
>> it has any bearing but I have recently upgraded to Select 4i4 and on the
>> Windows side to AVG free V8. Can anyone help please?
> I'd doubt Select would be relevant if booting into RO is very slow, because
> at the earliest stages, Select presumably isn't actually fully loaded.
> Though... if Select offers you the possibility of reverting temporarily to a
> prior level of Select it'd be interesting to try that, keeping AVG etc at
> the new level.
> If you turn off AVG, (you might want to make sure you're not online to the
> internet when trying this), does the problem go away?
> I wonder if AVG is intercepting every 'open' of every file that VRPC is
> trying to read, and slowing things down? (I know nothing much about AVG,
> this might be a daft suggestion.)
> An absolute crawl possibly also implies that something (AVG or a virus) is
> trying to check something on a remote server every time you do something.
> You might have a DNS timeout occuring each time (ie your internet connection
> trying and failing to talk to some other machine). Quite why it'd speed up
> subsequently I'm not sure.
> Do you use either the Windows firewall or something like Zone Alarm, or a
> firewall in a separate router? Are they logging anything odd?
> Is there anything in the windows event logs?
Jeremy
Many many thanks for helping, and so promptly. You pointed me in the
right direction. I have set AVG Resident Shield so that it doesn't
scan VRPC and that seems to have solved the problem
Once again, many thanks
Ken Page
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