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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
On 01/12/2010 2:33 PM, Peter Foldes wrote:
Start\Run\Services.msc\scroll down to Indexing right click\Properties and select Disable and then Apply. Did that stop your HD from thrashing It hasn't happened again recently, so I can't try that yet. Yousuf Khan |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
On 01/12/2010 1:13 PM, Jack wrote:
What could be happening here? Disconnect from the internet for a moment and see if the activity goes back to normal. I don't think it was a rootkit or any other malware. I'm pretty sure it was a hardware-related fault of some kind. If it was malware, then you wouldn't see disk thrashing with no data being transferred. You'd see disk thrashing with lots of data being transferred. Yousuf Khan |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Peter Foldes wrote Start\Run\Services.msc\scroll down to Indexing right click\Properties and select Disable and then Apply. Did that stop your HD from thrashing It hasn't happened again recently, so I can't try that yet. You sure its not just your antivirus doing a scan ? What are you using antivirus wise ? |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
On 02/12/2010 1:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: Peter Foldes wrote Start\Run\Services.msc\scroll down to Indexing right click\Properties and select Disable and then Apply. Did that stop your HD from thrashing It hasn't happened again recently, so I can't try that yet. You sure its not just your antivirus doing a scan ? What are you using antivirus wise ? Yup, I'd see processor usage with an anti-virus scan. I'm using AVG in this case. Yousuf Khan |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... On 02/12/2010 1:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: Peter Foldes wrote Start\Run\Services.msc\scroll down to Indexing right click\Properties and select Disable and then Apply. Did that stop your HD from thrashing It hasn't happened again recently, so I can't try that yet. You sure its not just your antivirus doing a scan ? What are you using antivirus wise ? Yup, I'd see processor usage with an anti-virus scan. I'm using AVG in this case. Yousuf Khan The next time it happens, use Process Monitor. PM shows complete real time details on every disk activity, along with all registry and process transactions. Disk-only transactions can be displayed, or recorded for analysis, which is the best way, as up to 10,000 events a second are intercepted. Also, some of the lines of data can be hundreds of characters wide, especially when the registry is involved. PM is available he http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:40:46 -0600, Big Steel
wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:43:09 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 01/12/2010 9:51 AM, Big Steel wrote: If svchost.exe is not running out of the windows.system32 folder, then it could be malware that it is running. You should check what svchost.exe is hosting by using Process Explorer. PE is free to use, and you can use Bing or Google to find out how to use PE to look at a running process, see what it is hosting and see what directory a process/program is located when it is running. Yes, I know about ProcExplorer, that is what I was using to report this size. But do you know how to use it to determine what svchost.exe is hosting and what process in svchost.exe is sucking up the CPU? Svchost.exe does nothing on its own. It only host processes. So how do you determine that stuff? |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:11:07 -0500, mm
wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:40:46 -0600, Big Steel wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:43:09 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 01/12/2010 9:51 AM, Big Steel wrote: If svchost.exe is not running out of the windows.system32 folder, then it could be malware that it is running. You should check what svchost.exe is hosting by using Process Explorer. PE is free to use, and you can use Bing or Google to find out how to use PE to look at a running process, see what it is hosting and see what directory a process/program is located when it is running. Yes, I know about ProcExplorer, that is what I was using to report this size. But do you know how to use it to determine what svchost.exe is hosting and what process in svchost.exe is sucking up the CPU? Svchost.exe does nothing on its own. It only host processes. So how do you determine that stuff? You go to menu View. You select Show Lower Pane. You select Lower Pane View. You select DLLs. After you have done that, then when you left click on a running process in the upper pane, that will show you everything a process is hosting. You can right click a line in the lower pane and it will show where the DLL is located. You can right click a process in the upper pane and go to Properties. You will see several tabs and you can see other info. about the process. -- posted with a Droid |
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100% disk activity, but very little disk transfer
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:12:43 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote:
I've often noticed that sometimes my boot hard disk goes crazy, disk activity light flickers constantly, system becomes unresponsive, but ... 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? It could be the HDD itself. At least that's my experience. Try cloning your internal HDD to a different brand HDD. And yes in my recent experience this type of thing *DOES* sometimes make a BIG difference. Bill |
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