100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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I've often noticed that sometimes my boot hard disk goes crazy, disk
activity light flickers constantly, system becomes unresponsive, but
there's no particular process hogging the processor cores. I managed to
watch one such incident while Hard Disk Sentinel was present in memory,
and when I looked at the boot disk in the Performance tab, it showed 100%
activity, but data transfer was down near zero. Obviously, I had to reboot
the computer to get it back to normal.
I'm talking about Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in this case, but I've seen
similar things happen under Windows XP Pro 32-bit in the past too. Another
thing I noticed is that during this time, the System's own SVCHOST.EXE
program is using up a lot of memory too, over 300MB by itself!
What could be happening here?
Disconnect from the internet for a moment and see if the activity goes back
to normal.
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