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henry markov
I have a legacy 866MHz, 384Mbyte, XP/SP3 machine that has always run "well
enough" however sometime in the last several months its responsiveness
became awful most of the time. Using performance monitor I determined that
"automatic updates" was driving it into a condition of more than 100 paging
transactions/second rather continuously. When I disabled automatic updates
the machine returned to its usual condition which is to say I can have a
number of apps open and get reasonable performance. Has automatic updates
changed in a significant way (either intentionally or unintentionally)
recently in a way that explains this behavior? Oh, since I know some people
will distain the specs of my machine note that it does have an adequately
sized paging file, is defragged regularly, etc, etc, such that it really
does work decently for anything else I do including software development.
enough" however sometime in the last several months its responsiveness
became awful most of the time. Using performance monitor I determined that
"automatic updates" was driving it into a condition of more than 100 paging
transactions/second rather continuously. When I disabled automatic updates
the machine returned to its usual condition which is to say I can have a
number of apps open and get reasonable performance. Has automatic updates
changed in a significant way (either intentionally or unintentionally)
recently in a way that explains this behavior? Oh, since I know some people
will distain the specs of my machine note that it does have an adequately
sized paging file, is defragged regularly, etc, etc, such that it really
does work decently for anything else I do including software development.