Using 1 CPU core for anti-virus

Quad core = useless, its not doing anything hardly I know it when I bought it, it doesnt reall bother me.

But It can still be useful if I set affinity, so I wanna know say I want my virus to perform a constant visusscan then start again all the time, is there anyway I can permanently set say core 3 (4th) to have it run on so I dont get a bit laggy at other things.

Anti-virus is AVG.

Thanks for your help

Heh... Quadcore=useless... Then give it to me!!

Not exactly sure if you can do that, since there are different programs relating to it.

For example I run Avast! and it runs more then one program for email/web/ect. You would end up setting the affinity for allot of the different threads for the program itself.

I'd say just leave it alone... or if you really want to mess around with it:

Download the THG Task Assignment Manager

You can use that program to set affinity to particular programs. It doesn't have a minimize button, but it will minimize. You can also set the shortcut to start as minimized for the startup folder.... but that is the thing.. the anitvirus may startup before the THG task assignment.

The only other way is just to use task manager, right click on the program and set its affinity from there.

Or... folding for THG.

Hi all,

Running with core assignments can be useful. However I don't think virus scanning is CPU intensive enough to justify it!!

Windows hasn't a clue how to assign processes to individual cores and does need some help if you want total efficiency!! AutoIt scripting supports this now and is quite easy to use.

As an example I have written an AutoIt script to assign x264 encoder worker processes. My system really blasts through batched encodes with 1 worker process (2-way threaded) per single-core processor (dual-processor system).

Left to its own devices Windows keeps moving the 2 processes around. The CPU utilization drops from 100% to about 80% and the FPS encoding rate roughly halves...


NB The THG task assigner utility is buggy as hell and doesn't run under Windows x64. It also cannot assign processes with the same name to different cores. Whereas with AutoIt you can single processes by their unique PID (process ID). This can be useful as in the above example or for example to farm out multiple DVD burner processes (to minimise context switching overheads).

Bob

Thanks! Il look into that.

Btw anti virus was just an example theres plenty of things that I can put on the cores that arent being used. MSN, music, monitering tools etc.

Thanks BobWya

Thanks for the info


Btw it I didnt think of all the reading the HDE will be doing was 2 busy thinking of a quick example.

Thanks everyone!