Copying DVD contents to HD painfully slow...

[mjs]

You need to look for error messages that relate to today's date.

One warning (which is unrelated to the slowness because it dates back to 20
mins ago) says : "TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the
number of concurrent TCP connect attempts." What does that mean and how
worried should I be?

As for the slowness in throughput between the DVD and HD, I see nothing
since 2:15am (which is probably really 1:15am). There are a few DCOM errors
here that look like this : "DCOM got error "The service cannot be started,
either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices
associated with it. " attempting to start the service usnjsvc with
arguments"

This seems to coincide with audio editing software crashing. This happens
every once in a while. Not sure how it would be related to my throughput
problems, but I'm no expert.

Any other ideas?

 

[mjs]

Are you by any chance going thru an unpowered USB hub using an external
device to transfer thru? If so, bypass it. s

*whoosh!*

Haha.. sorry, but that just flew over my head. Could you dumb it down like
you were talking to a Canadian? Because you are. ;-)

(The hardware is internal and plugged directly into the MB, if that helps.)

 

[mjs]

The one thing you should note is that the quoted read speed of the DVD
drive only applies to pre-mastered disks. It is often slower for DVD-R
discs and for many drives is actually slower than the write speed.

I burned these DVDs myself. They're for backup purposes. I'm re-importing
them onto my HD.

 

[mjs]

Let's just clear something up. Are you saying you're having trouble
copying _data_, in other word dragging and dropping files, or are you
importing DVD film into something? Because the time would be about right
for the latter. For the former, I'd agree with Pegasus.

I'm grabbing a bunch of data files from a DVD I burned myself for backup
purposes, and copying them back onto my HD. They're mostly wav files. I'm
just copying them.

 

[mjs]

One warning (which is unrelated to the slowness because it dates back to
20 mins ago) says : "TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the
number of concurrent TCP connect attempts." What does that mean and how
worried should I be?

Incidentally, I seem to be getting a couple of these per day, now that I
look at the log more closely.

 

[Robert Moir]

WHAT service? I use normal file transfering through Messenger, but none of
that "shared folders" stuff. Just the one-on-one stuff. Which service
should I be disabling?

Messenger Sharing Folders USN Journal Reader service

Now you're scaring me. :-/ I have Azureus installed, but use it maybe
twice a year. It's not loaded 99% of the time. If something else is trying
to communicate, I'd really like to find out what and stop it.

There isn't much of a need to be worried, just cautious. It really does
depend what you have installed on the system and it doesn't have to mean
something evil, as I say, if you watch any of the "online TV" or sports
shows and things like that, they can use peer to peer techniques to transfer
their data. I'd try using a program called "Hijack This" to generate a log
of everything running in the background at at boot-up on your computer and
post it to a forum where experts can look at it (and let's be clear,
whatever else I am and am not, I'm not an expert at reading those logs).