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JimG1
Dec 02, 2015Guide
OS 6.4.1 slow ... to the point of unusable
We just upgraded an RN102 to 6.4.1, which intially seemed to fix some backup issues we'd been working around, however we've just downgraded to 6.4.0 after seeing 6.4.1 being too slow to be usable (th...
- Mar 24, 2016
To get the fix for the anti-virus issue you can update to ReadyNASOS 6.5.0-T338 (Beta 2) (or later). Alternatively if you prefer you can stay on 6.4.2 for now and install the hot-fix (which is now available).
Thanks for your patience.
StephenB
Jan 15, 2016Guru - Experienced User
kylefarris wrote:
I have htop installed on my NAS so I took a screenshot of the output which absolutely verifies without a doubt that the culprit is the ctscan daemon (the antivirus server). Their instances are pegging my NAS's CPU cores at 100%.
Nothing surprising here, that is a known bug, and we have been telling lots of people to turn off AV protection on 6.4.1 and 6.4.2 beta for now. Hopefully Netgear will have a fix soon.
kylefarris
Jan 15, 2016Aspirant
Yeah, I did.
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