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Pat
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Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject:
Firewalls cause constant disk writes? |
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With Sygate free I get disk writes every 5 seconds on average. I have logging turned off.
If I exit Sygate and use Windows XP SP2 Firewall, they stop. The same seems to happen with
Zone Alarm free. Do all firewalls tend to do this?
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Bas Keur
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:
Re: Firewalls cause constant disk writes? |
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| Quote: | With Sygate free I get disk writes every 5 seconds on average. I have
logging turned off. If I exit Sygate and use Windows XP SP2 Firewall, they
stop. The same seems to happen with Zone Alarm free. Do all firewalls tend
to do this?
Pat.
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You being the only one using it ? Hell no.
It should (or it's pure crap) have some sort of setting
where you can define a memory buffer. Try 32MB,
should be enough for a 12 hours IO free system.
Then again, i'm not familiar with those `home products`, what
I do know about these firewalls is that they have a reputation
that prevent them from being taken `seriously` :)
I think the XP-SP2 does a better job handeling IO since those
Zone alarm & Sygate are applications that need to `talk` to
windows trough some sort of API. (Unlike FW-1 for ex.)
BIG-Note: This is just me speculating.....
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] Bas Keur
] `Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery` |
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Pat
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:20 am Post subject:
Re: Firewalls cause constant disk writes? |
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Sounds interesting...
Any further thoughts on what might need buffering?
Also embarrassment: I was using System Monitor to see the disk activity and had it set to
show "Disk Writes" which (I later realised...)means the disk writing to memory (i.e. the
system READING from the disk) so what I was seeing was READS from disk :)
Pat.
"Bas Keur" <bas.keur@dmrt.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | With Sygate free I get disk writes every 5 seconds on average. I have logging turned
off. If I exit Sygate and use Windows XP SP2 Firewall, they stop. The same seems to
happen with Zone Alarm free. Do all firewalls tend to do this?
Pat.
You being the only one using it ? Hell no.
It should (or it's pure crap) have some sort of setting
where you can define a memory buffer. Try 32MB,
should be enough for a 12 hours IO free system.
Then again, i'm not familiar with those `home products`, what
I do know about these firewalls is that they have a reputation
that prevent them from being taken `seriously` :)
I think the XP-SP2 does a better job handeling IO since those
Zone alarm & Sygate are applications that need to `talk` to
windows trough some sort of API. (Unlike FW-1 for ex.)
BIG-Note: This is just me speculating.....
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] Bas Keur
] `Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery`
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