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0 pointslizknope5y ago0 comments

My work laptop runs Windows. It runs Outlook, Chrome, Slack, and Exceed to connect to a remote Linux server where I do all of my work. At random times throughout the day the fan will get really loud. When I run the process viewer tool during this time I see things using 100% CPU. It's a Core i5-8350U with 8GB RAM and during these times it gets almost unusable. I've googled a few of them and they always seem to be antivirus things.

At home I have over 8 Linux machines and the only times their fans get louder are when I am actually running a video encoding program or something CPU intensive like that. Some of them are slower with only 4GB RAM and they are always responsive.

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floatboth5y ago· 4 in thread

The built-in Windows Defender is absolutely painful on low end machines. Yours should be absolutely fine, but on a 2010 macbook with an ancient core2duo and 2gb ram, it's very noticeable.

zaphirplane5y ago

Out of interest why is the performance of a basic a/v be affected by “older” cpu.

Isn’t it basically finger printing files and intercepting IO and so the resources it uses just depends on the activity of the device not the age of the CPU

mr_toad5y ago

I have an i7 with 16GB of RAM and when Defender and update both decide to run at the same time it cripples the machine for half an hour.

fomine35y ago

"i7 CPU" is totally zero informative for now. It's vary from 2core 1GHz (ancient i7 620UM) to 18 core.

kiwijamo5y ago

That is strange. Until fairly recently my daily driver was a low end ex-lease HP machine from 2013 or so with an i3 with 4gigs of RAM. Never saw much issue with Defender or the updates. Not unusual for updates of any kind to be all over and done with in <5mins from clicking update to a fully usable desktop. Win10 has improved a heck of a lot over previous versions even on old hardware. My work-supplied Mac on the other hand, even with much better specs than my lowly home machine, usually takes at least 30mins to do updates (with most of the time spent during the reboot which means I can't use it at all). One of many reasons why I moved away from Apple for my own hardware.

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