Windows7 HDD thrashing.

Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?
Peter

Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?
Peter

It's probably communicating with it's home world.
For a quick verify unplug the ethernet cable or turn off the router.

You can try process explorer, process monitor, tcpview, cports, etc.

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:06:38 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?
Peter

It's probably communicating with it's home world.
For a quick verify unplug the ethernet cable or turn off the router.

You can try process explorer, process monitor, tcpview, cports, etc.
I'll check the Ethernet.

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:04 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 09:43:05 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?
Peter
Task Manager

Well, sort of.

Run Task Manager. On the Performance tab, click Resource Monitor.
When that opens, click the Disk tab.



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On 2015-10-23 19:59, Char Jackson wrote:


Really? Task Manager shows the application responsible for disk activity?


Nope, but clicking on the "Resource Monitor" will open a tool which CAN
display which processes are doing disk activity, as suggested by Stan
Brown in another follow-up.

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On 23/10/2015 6:43 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?

Use the Windows Resource Monitor (ResMon) to discover what your disk
activity is all about. I used to find this happened when I used a hard
disk for a boot drive too. Problem got resolved after going to an SSD.

In ResMon, goto the Disk tab, and first look under the Storage
clickdown. You'll likely find that your C: drive is being thrashed with
a 100% activity time, and your Disk Queue is likely above 1.00. This
means that there's more requests for data coming at the disk than it can
keep up with.

Then look above at the Disk Activity clickdown, and sort the columns by
Total (B/sec). You'll see which processes are doing most of the disk
activity. Put a check mark beside the highest activity process and
you'll see which files it's using on the disk.

How to remedy the situation. Well, if you have a second storage drive,
put the virtual memory files on the secondary disk. But even better than
that, try to get an SSD if you don't already have one.

Yousuf Khan

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:16:29 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:04 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 09:43:05 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Win7 ult
Sometimes on startup in the morning the HDD is active continuously for
about 20min. hen it reverts to normal. Where can I find which
utility is doing this?
Peter
Task Manager

Well, sort of.

Run Task Manager. On the Performance tab, click Resource Monitor.
When that opens, click the Disk tab.

I suspect this is what Ken was referring to, because Task Manager, by
itself, gives no clue as to which application or process is using the hard
disk.

--

Char Jackson

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:14:58 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
On 2015-10-23 19:59, Char Jackson wrote:
[quoted text muted]
Peter
Task Manager

Really? Task Manager shows the application responsible for disk activity?

It shows which tasks are running, among which will be one or more that
are causing the thrashing.

Well, of course the problem task will be among hose listed. But, also
of course, Task Manager won't tell you which one it is.

As I explained upthread, when I gave instructions for actually
identifying the task responsible for disk activity.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...