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My disk keeps crunching away when my system idle
process cpu usage is high. I have a noisy disk,
is there anything I can do to prevent this?
 
grant cameron said:
My disk keeps crunching away when my system idle
process cpu usage is high. I have a noisy disk,
is there anything I can do to prevent this?
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Adding more memory to the system is probably the solution. Sounds like you
are thrashing - I/O bottleneck, high processor usage, and I suspect high
physical memory usage. The system is completely occupied swapping stuff in
and out of physical memory trying to handle the work load.
 
MyndPhlyp said:
Adding more memory to the system is probably the solution. Sounds like you
are thrashing - I/O bottleneck, high processor usage, and I suspect high
physical memory usage. The system is completely occupied swapping stuff in
and out of physical memory trying to handle the work load.
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Using Task Manager and adding the appropriate I/O columns
to the display will tell you which processes are causing the
disk thrashing.

Rick
 
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