[Mpi-forum] MPI performance with Sophos Anti-Virus

[Wesley Bland]

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Wesley

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Abhinav Gupta <abhinav_gupta at mentor.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running a MPI application which is showing slowdown with Sophos anti-virus software installed.
> I assume the anti-virus is checking every read-write access to disk from all the processes and thus serialising the parallel actions.
> 
> Is there anything I can do either in MPI or in Sophos settings that will help.
> 
> Abhinav
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