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Every day bad performance after or during upgrade of the antivirus definitions
I have an Ultra 6 running OS 6.10.4. A couple of months ago I turned the AV function on. I am not sure since when this is occurring, but every day during or after updating the AV definitions, the mac...
I wonder if the AV deamon is hogging the NAS resources. When update happens, could you try and monitor the CPU and Memory usage? You can use SSH to access the command line interface and run top and free -h while this slowness is going on.
How much memory is installed? If it's not at least 2GB, I recommend you upgrade since all native Intel OS6 units ship with at least that much. Of course, it also could be the CPU, as rn_enthusiast said. The Ultra6 also has a lesser CPU than native OS6 units and, unfortunately, cannot be upgraded.
I am on 2Gb
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