Logging connections in & out (firewall) causes lots of HDD activity

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  1. tommy456

    tommy456 Registered Member

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    Hi, the second issue that have noticed is with logging of connections particularly one app Team speak 3 client, once it connects to a server the hdd starts pulsing and will not stop until i close teamspeak again, but if logging is not selected it works without the pulsing of the hdd,

    My question is why does setting rules for apps in the firewall to log incoming and outgoing connections cause so much Hdd activity, not to mention a nominal increase in CPU activity too, surely this can't be how they intended it to work?
     
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    Marcos Eset Staff Account

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    Re: Loging connections in & out (firewall) causes lots of HDD activity

    If there are lot of connections the log can grow to even several hundreds MB or a few GB in size if the logging remains enabled for a longer time. Enabling logging of all connections is not recommend unless debugging a specific issue.
     
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    tommy456 Registered Member

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    Re: Loging connections in & out (firewall) causes lots of HDD activity

    Since my last it's not only ts3 that causes a lot of activity, I have de selected the logging on all the apps that i had enabled it on, all back to normal,
    whilst i can appreciate that logs can/do grow in size ,the actual writing of them shouldn't cause the issues i have experienced, if that is deemed normal operation ,
    Then maybe as a suggestion the devs could put some info about it within the help section of the program, or on the eset web site in the kb
     
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