Norton and µtorrent under one cpu.

[iceberg]

I'm not realling having a serious issue and it isnt a bug, nor does this fall under any of the other catagories I found in my search. This seemed like the most logical place to post.

Currently I am downloading the latest releases of FreeBSD and Gentoo linux via torrent. What I am noticing is that µtorrent seems to open a new write session for each block of data it writes, then closes it. This is a nice secure way to do things I would have to agree insted of the usual open a stream and close it when the file is finished or what not. However with each file write norton does a scan. I am wondering if there is a way to increase the data block size before a write is done or something. My school requires us to use norton to have computers on the wifi network so Im not able to use an alternate virus checker (sigh).

If anyone has any suggestions I would appriciate it because sith norton running every 45 seconds it's hell on the cpu, slowing down other work while torrents are going. As I said,itisnt a bug in either program, they are working exactly as the should with no real issues other than this.

Thank you in advance.

[00]

Try setting diskio.flush_files in advanced options to false?

[1c3d0g]

Yes. Options ▶ Preferences... ▶ Advanced Options ▶ diskio.flush_files = *false. Be advised that µTorrent will consume more memory this way, but that is the trade-off you'll have to live with if you are forced to use Norton. Or just set up an exclusion rule in Norton to disallow it to keep scanning a particular folder... :|

Edit: 00 got me this time...

[iceberg]

Thanks guys, I will give that a try. Appriciate the fast help.