Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict

[Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail dot com>]

Dick Repasky wrote:
> I, too, experience the problem, and the problem seems to depend on
> hardware.

Thank you for letting me know that I'm not totally nuts.

In addition to the keyboard delay, I too get slow rendering for 
X-forwarded apps.

I can't imagine that this problem is due to the hardware. I'm 
experiencing it on a P4 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB RAM and a 100Mbit wired 
connection. Conversely, I've never encountered the problem on other, 
slower machines, over slower network connections w/ higher latency, all 
connecting to the same remote box.

It's gotta be something else. For what it's worth, I'm attaching the 
output of ps -alW. I'm running WinXP SP2, and the problem used to happen 
under SP1 as well. If anyone sees anything that might be interacting 
with the network in an evil way, please tell me.

Dick, what versions of Symantec Antivirus and scan enginge are you 
running? Do you get the delay if you're typing into a local shell? Do 
you get the delay if you're typing into a remote ssh-connected shell, 
but running under a local rxvt binary instead of xterm?
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
        4       0       0          4    ?    0 15:24:48 *** unknown ***
     1016       0       0       1016    ?    0   Sep 28 \SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe
     1124       0       0       1124    ?    0   Sep 28 \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
     1168       0       0       1168    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
     1180       0       0       1180    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
     1336       0       0       1336    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
     1488       0       0       1488    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
     1716       0       0       1716    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
     1732       0       0       1732    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
     1912       0       0       1912    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
      220       0       0        220    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\DefWatch.exe
      368       0       0        368    ?    0   Sep 28 C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe
     1152       0       0       1152    ?    0   Sep 29 C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
     4052       0       0       4052    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
      948       0       0        948    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
     2964       0       0       2964    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\VPTray.exe
     3264       0       0       3264    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\WINDOWS\system32\NWTRAY.EXE
     1672       0       0       1672    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\Program Files\WinPortrait\wpctrl.exe
     4092       0       0       4092    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\bin\jusched.exe
     2680       0       0       2680    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
     3828       0       0       3828    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\Program Files\WinPortrait\floater.exe
      740       0       0        740    ?    0   Oct  1 C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~2\THUNDE~1.EXE
     4088       0       0       4088    ?    0   Oct  3 C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE
     3388       0       0       3388    ?    0 19:09:17 C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
     1660       1    1660       1660  con 1003 19:24:36 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin
     3552       1    3552       3552  con 1003 19:24:36 /usr/bin/xterm
      548       0       0        548    ?    0 19:24:40 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
      908    3716     908       4024    0 1003 19:25:27 /usr/bin/ps
     4024       0       0       4024    ?    0 19:25:28 C:\cygwin\bin\ps.exe