RE: [p4] Antivirus compatibility

Well, Symantec's client AV does realtime file-system scanning, but I
don't think it touches network traffic directly.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Biggar [mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:00 PM
To: Jason McClellan
Cc: perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [p4] Antivirus compatibility

Actually, that's not enough.  You also need to make sure that any AV
filtering isn't done on the perforce client/server network protocol
exchanges.  Otherwise you will get at best failed checkin/checkouts or
at worst corrupted perforce data.

Jason McClellan wrote:
>  
> Thanks alot, Paul - that's what I was hoping.  Server av exclusions 
> are no problem
>  
> Jason
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> *From:* Paul Goffin [mailto:Paul.Goffin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Monday, December 13, 2004 2:26 PM
> *To:* Jason McClellan; perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* RE: [p4] Antivirus compatibility
> 
> The issue is on the server only - the difficulty is that the virus 
> checker can hold Perforce's database files locked for long periods 
> (they become very large files) and this can drastically reduce 
> performance and can cause times outs and so on.
> 
> It's not a problem as long as you can configure the virus checker 
> running on the server to ignore your P4ROOT directory.


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Floorboard Software
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