[cvsnt] disabling Norton Antivirus Realtime protection??

[Glen Starrett]

> The reason, as I understand it, is due to the large volume of 
> files that
> the cvs service requires to read during a cvs update.  For every file
> that cvs reads, nav also does a virus scan.  In our case, once we
> disabled realtime protection we saw updates take one third 
> the time they
> did previously.

It also can cause an occasional error on normal CVS operations, especially
on busy CVS servers.  Sometimes you can get "can't rename file"... because
AV is still reading it.

Regards,

Glen Starrett