Turn off file share?

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Bill Leary

I turned on file sharing briefly. After having it on for a while, I
realized it wasn't the answer to the problem I was trying to solve, so I
turned it off again.

While I was on, I noticed an increase in CPU and disk usage. Rather to my
surprise, now that it's turned off there's STILL an increase in CPU and disk
usage. It's not as much as when it was turned on, but it's still higher
than what it was before I turned it on for the first time.

So, either I haven't got it as turned off as I thought, or something gets
started as a side effect of turning on file sharing which doesn't then get
turned off again when it's removed.

I even tried a system restore to a point several hours before I made turned
on file sharing. Didn't help.

- Bill
 
Bill Leary said:
I turned on file sharing briefly. After having it on for a while, I
realized it wasn't the answer to the problem I was trying to solve, so I
turned it off again.

While I was on, I noticed an increase in CPU and disk usage. Rather to my
surprise, now that it's turned off there's STILL an increase in CPU and
disk usage. It's not as much as when it was turned on, but it's still
higher than what it was before I turned it on for the first time.

So, either I haven't got it as turned off as I thought, or something gets
started as a side effect of turning on file sharing which doesn't then get
turned off again when it's removed.

I even tried a system restore to a point several hours before I made
turned on file sharing. Didn't help.

- Bill
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Fire up Task Manager [ctrl-shift-esc] and see which process is hogging the
cpu
 
Jon said:
Bill Leary said:
I turned on file sharing briefly. After having it on for a while, I
realized it wasn't the answer to the problem I was trying to solve, so I
turned it off again.

While I was on, I noticed an increase in CPU and disk usage. Rather to
my surprise, now that it's turned off there's STILL an increase in CPU
and disk usage. It's not as much as when it was turned on, but it's
still higher than what it was before I turned it on for the first time.

So, either I haven't got it as turned off as I thought, or something gets
started as a side effect of turning on file sharing which doesn't then
get turned off again when it's removed.

I even tried a system restore to a point several hours before I made
turned on file sharing. Didn't help.
Click to expand...

Fire up Task Manager [ctrl-shift-esc] and see which process is hogging the
cpu
Click to expand...

Tried that. It's nothing I haven't seen before.

I probably wasn't clear that it's not a huge difference. It's up a couple
of percent. The disk activity bothers me more. I was used to watching
Resource Monitor and having it be zero most of the time with small blips
every few seconds. I'm now seeing somewhat larger blips and about twice as
often. It's not really the performance hit which I'm concerned about, it's
that something is going on in there which wasn't before. I guess I'm more
annoyed that "off" doesn't really seem to be "off." The machine seems to be
running OK. I haven't seen any loss in performance. I just don't like it
when unexplained things like this happen.

- Bill
 
If your HD is busy while you are not using it then Vista may be indexing
areas of your HD to make searching faster. This should slow way down once
the index is built. If you leave your computer on overnight it should be
done by the next morning.

Jeff


Bill Leary said:
Jon said:
Bill Leary said:
I turned on file sharing briefly. After having it on for a while, I
realized it wasn't the answer to the problem I was trying to solve, so I
turned it off again.

While I was on, I noticed an increase in CPU and disk usage. Rather to
my surprise, now that it's turned off there's STILL an increase in CPU
and disk usage. It's not as much as when it was turned on, but it's
still higher than what it was before I turned it on for the first time.

So, either I haven't got it as turned off as I thought, or something
gets started as a side effect of turning on file sharing which doesn't
then get turned off again when it's removed.

I even tried a system restore to a point several hours before I made
turned on file sharing. Didn't help.
Click to expand...

Fire up Task Manager [ctrl-shift-esc] and see which process is hogging
the cpu
Click to expand...

Tried that. It's nothing I haven't seen before.

I probably wasn't clear that it's not a huge difference. It's up a
couple of percent. The disk activity bothers me more. I was used to
watching Resource Monitor and having it be zero most of the time with
small blips every few seconds. I'm now seeing somewhat larger blips and
about twice as often. It's not really the performance hit which I'm
concerned about, it's that something is going on in there which wasn't
before. I guess I'm more annoyed that "off" doesn't really seem to be
"off." The machine seems to be running OK. I haven't seen any loss in
performance. I just don't like it when unexplained things like this
happen.

- Bill
Click to expand...
 
Bill Leary said:
I probably wasn't clear that it's not a huge difference. It's up a
couple of percent. The disk activity bothers me more. I was used to
watching Resource Monitor and having it be zero most of the time with
small blips every few seconds. I'm now seeing somewhat larger blips and
about twice as often. It's not really the performance hit which I'm
concerned about, it's that something is going on in there which wasn't
before. I guess I'm more annoyed that "off" doesn't really seem to be
"off." The machine seems to be running OK. I haven't seen any loss in
performance. I just don't like it when unexplained things like this
happen.
Click to expand...

It will most likely be a legitimate background task running, e.g. Defrag or
Indexing.
 
Jeffrey S. Sparks said:
If your HD is busy while you are not using it then Vista may be indexing
areas of your HD to make searching faster. This should slow way down once
the index is built. If you leave your computer on overnight it should be
done by the next morning.
Click to expand...

I thought of that, and perhaps you're right.

The machine has been running Vista for a month. I thought it odd that the
amount of disk activity went up, a lot, when I activated file sharing, and
went down after I turned it off, but did not return to the same level as it
was before turning file sharing on.

- Bill
 
CJM said:
It will most likely be a legitimate background task running, e.g. Defrag
or Indexing.
Click to expand...

I suspect you're right. What I find curious was that it was at a certain,
very low level, before turning on file sharing. After turning file sharing
off, it did not return to the same very low level. It's just a bit higher
than it was.

- Bill
 
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