[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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