On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> ## Colin 't Hart ([email protected]): > > > I wonder if anyone here has any experience with configuring exclusions so > > that the WAL files can be processed faster? > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions > mind this: > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions#supported-exclusion-scopes > and work from these examples (if you're allowed to): > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions#example-3-add-or-remove-a-folder-exclusion > > > Any advice on what to communicate with their IT department about using > this > > on their database servers? I've never encountered it on Linux before... > > "Be glad it only slows your database down. All too often, AV/Endpoint > Protection Products just don't like the access pattern and eat your > database for breakfast." There is this joke "it has been 0 days since > Anti-Virus ate a database". > Things must have improved, since we had Carbon Black for a number of years, and now use Coretex XDR. CB would quite often consume 300% CPU, while XDR "only" uses 100% on occasion, but have never corrupted or crashed a PG instance. (This is standard installations, with no exclusions.) -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
