Parallels Desktop 11: High CPU and High Disk I/O

Nicos

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I use Parallel Desktop 11 in combination with Bitdefender (Continuous anti-virus scanner) on OS X.
Parallel Desktop 11 gives me a high CPU usage when using Bootcamp:
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The cause of this is probably Parallels Control Center, since the are no other CPU or I/O intensive programs running.
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Parallels Control Center tries to read all kind of random files on my computer. In the example below drives. And some of them have a buffer overflow as result:
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