This may be a dumb question but....

Posted By: harlock123 | Oct 29th, 2007 @ 12:30 PM
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#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 12:30 PM
harlock123
harlock123

On my vista dev machine I will often come back from it being idle for a bit, to find that its severely thrashing the hard disk. There is nothing usually running in the machine at these times. No virus scanner scanning, Sql server Dev 2005 not SQL servering anything.  Just some system task launching multiple threads  each one writing perhaps 2-3 hundred megabytes a minute to disk. This goes on for perhaps 20 mins or more then stops...


Anybody have any insights..

Resource monitor screen shot below I caught this with 4 threads all wacking away at my laptop encumbered drive bandwidth.

ResourceHogging
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 12:32 PM
littleguru
littleguru
The screenshot seems to miss...

Is it perhaps the search indexer that is running? Have you checked that?
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 12:38 PM
harlock123
harlock123
Well I fixed the screenshot

I guess it was to large...

As for the search indexer I was figuring on something like that being the cause. Being a developer for a living I initially had a series of Gloom and Doom scenarios in my head on my initial contact, but I do try to cover my bases and have concluded that this is a normal phenomon if not somewhat annoying...


#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 12:44 PM
littleguru
littleguru
It's not normal. Have you tried to rebuild the cache for the indexer? There's an option in the control panel: Indexing options -> Advanced -> Rebuild.

Perhaps that might help...
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 1:16 PM
Lloyd_Humph
Lloyd_Humph
I find if I leave my computer on for 14+ hours it slows down a helluva lot.

for example, if I use it in the day then leave it on overnight to download some stuff etc. in the morning it's so slow I have to reboot to get full perf. back.

also, if I boot up and leave it on the login screen, I can hear the HDD whirring constantly, varying speeds etc.. so it gives me the impression it's doing something even though the PC isn't even logged on.
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 1:17 PM
PaoloM
PaoloM

That's our old friend VSS Smiley

VSS Default Provider - \System Volume Information\*{3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752} /s

#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 1:20 PM
leeappdalecom
leeappdalecom
I have the same on my MacBook for some reason the laptop seems to run hotter when running Vista. While in OS X the fan rarely comes on and you can't hear the drive, when booted in Vista sometimes the fan is going crazy and the drive seems to be thrashing when I'm not doing anything.

Weird Big Smile
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 1:36 PM
littleguru
littleguru
PaoloM wrote:


That's our old friend VSS

VSS Default Provider - \System Volume Information\*{3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752} /s



Did I tell you that I hate GUIDs Wink
#Oct 29th, 2007 @ 2:27 PM
tgraupmann
tgraupmann
I had the same problem with my wireless network card. After I upgraded the drivers, I stopped seeing CPU spikes when it should have been idle.
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