IET Gen Development Blog

This is an occasional blog about IET's use of CA Gen for internal development as well as thoughts, tips and techniques on using CA Gen for application development. It is aimed at the CA Gen development professional, so please excuse the jargon and assumed level of knowledge about CA Gen. Reference will also be made to our products to put the development into context, so if you are not familiar with these, please visit the IET web site by clicking on the company logo.

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Almost like having a new machine

We recently upgraded our anti-virus software to the latest 2010 release and it was immediately noticeable how much slower our machines were, especially our heavily used CSE machine. We also found the desktops to be much slower, and so the new release was de-installed and the older (2009) release re-installed. It still took up to 25% of the CPU though, and so we decided to try some alternatives. After a bit of research, we selected one of the other leading products to trial. Both desktops and the CSE run much faster and it is like having a new machine and so the upgrade can be delayed for a while!