Sygate PF, hogs CPU time

[oshta]

I have Sygate personal firewall, and it (smc.exe) is always hogging CPU time whenever i use a network conecction (lan or web)
- this is especially noticeable with heavy network usage, ie when burning a DVD at higher speeds!

- just wondered if this is normal, or if there are any option i can set to reduce this?


daniel

[TiG]

erm would you not expect it to be more underdemand when you are doing things with the network, being a firewall and all?. The only thing i can think of having not ever used the product, is to turn off any "internal" lan checking to reduce the load?

TiG

[oshta]

erm would you not expect it to be more underdemand when you are doing things with the network, being a firewall and all?. The only thing i can think of having not ever used the product, is to turn off any "internal" lan checking to reduce the load?

TiG

Can you "turn off "internal" lan checking" ??

- if you could, i would be interested in know how (i've never really got the hand of sygate at all)

- becuase i dont need and firewalling on the internal lan

[Apex]

this is not normal for sygate i think you might have a problem else where thats causing this.

[Agent]

I dont have this problem.
CPU usage is very small, even when being maxed out on my 100Mbps LAN.

Your not using a gigabit LAN are you ?, i read somthing a while back where it said that software firewalls will have one hell of a time with them due to the amount of data they can have passing through them. Dont know how true it is though as im still on 100.

[oshta]

No, i cant afford gigabit lan!! - the servers HDD cant keep up with 100Mbps anyway!!

-its weird, i might try reinstalling it, or setting all the setting back to default, or somethink (maybe i need learn how to use sygate!!)

[Apex]

I dont have this problem.
CPU usage is very small, even when being maxed out on my 100Mbps LAN.

Your not using a gigabit LAN are you ?, i read somthing a while back where it said that software wirewalls will have one hell of a time with them due to the amount of data they can have passing through them. Dont know how true it is though as im still on 100.

on gig here and well looking at max 10% cpu usage when shifting a large file.