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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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(Can't they be "told" it's a single-core processor they're running
on?) [Avira seems OK here.]
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Avira is the only AV that I can get to run on really old XP systems
with 512MB RAM or less and an older processor, without it bogging
down the entire system.

(Good to know - I think - that I'm using a light one.)

How do you mean, "tell" the program it's on a single core?

I was referring to the suggestion someone made that most AV 'wares
these days assume they're on a multicore system, and cause heavy load
if run on a single-core system. I was wondering if they might have a
setting to prevent them trying to multiprocess. (Probably not, as
presumably it should be possible to do it - the detection of whether
multicore or not - automatically, so if they don't, they're not going
to bother.)

I run Avast 7 on slow single core CPUs all of the time. And you don't
even know it is running, as it only uses just such an insignificant
amount of CPU power.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3