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Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? 3+ messages / 3 participants [nested] [flat]
* Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? @ 2025-12-02 20:34 Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]> 2025-12-02 22:06 ` Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? Colin 't Hart <[email protected]> 2025-12-02 22:07 ` Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? Ron Johnson <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder @ 2025-12-02 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Colin 't Hart <[email protected]>; +Cc: PostgreSQL General <[email protected]> ## 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-folde... > 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". Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? 2025-12-02 20:34 Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]> @ 2025-12-02 22:06 ` Colin 't Hart <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Colin 't Hart @ 2025-12-02 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]>; +Cc: PostgreSQL General <[email protected]> Thanks. I just get This setting is managed by your organization so I'm going to have to talk with the IT guys... we have a meeting scheduled tomorrow. /Colin On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 21:34, 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-folde... > > > 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". > > Regards, > Christoph > > -- > Spare Space > ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? 2025-12-02 20:34 Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery? Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]> @ 2025-12-02 22:07 ` Ron Johnson <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Ron Johnson @ 2025-12-02 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: PostgreSQL General <[email protected]> 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-folde... > > > 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! ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
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