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Antivirus software on Oracle server
Hi,
Does anybody have any experience with this:
Is antivirus software such as McAfee Antivirus going to affect performance of Oracle on Windows 2000 server?
I have a file-based email server with antivirus installed and the McShield on-access scanner is constantly using CPU time whenever a emailbox file is accessed. I wonder if it does the same thing as database file access. I am more concerned about contention for datafile access than stealing CPU cycle.
thanks,
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Most virus software can be configured to ignore files based on various criteria, and commonly the file xtension is one of them. Your data files probably are *.dbf and/or *.ora, so you could configure it to ignore those type for a start.
Maybe you could get the anti-virus software to ignore particular directories instead, though.
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Some users are complaining of locking the control files from the anti-virus software. Then you will get error messages in your alert log that Oracle cannot write to the control file.
You have to disable checking of *.dbf, *.log and *.ctl files to avoid that.
Hope that helps,
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