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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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