MINIFICPP-1067 Add recommendations for antivirus exclusions to README
Signed-off-by: Arpad Boda <aboda@gapache.org>
This closes #671
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Please see [Extensions.md](Extensions.md) on how to build and run conditionally built dependencies and extensions.
+### Recommended Antivirus Exclusions
+
+Antivirus software can take a long time to scan directories and the files within them. Additionally, if the antivirus software locks files or directories during a scan, those resources are unavailable to MiNiFi processes, causing latency or unavailability of these resources in a MiNiFi instance. To prevent these performance and reliability issues from occurring, it is highly recommended to configure your antivirus software to skip scans on the following MiNiFi C++ directories:
+
+- content_repository
+- flowfile_repository
+- provenance_repository
+
## Operations
See our [operations documentation for additional inforomation on how to manage instances](OPS.md)
