Questions tagged [disk-activity]
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Disk usage at 100% during startup
Every time I start my computer, I have to wait 15 - 20 minutes just for it to actually be usable because disk usage is stuck at 100% and causing high lag. I have no idea why, and I tried a few solutions like disabling Windows search.
The running…
ITDW
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HDD activity when computer is idle
What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle.
It happens on Windows 7, automatic defragmentation and antivirus background scanning are turned off. Recently…
mondzi
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Windows 10 Disk usage 100%?
In process tab the disk usage is always about 14%, but on this performance Disk 0 is always 100%:
what is the reason for this?
It's a HDD. I am not even doing anything and its always 100%. You think this is a bug?
I have tried disabling superfetch…
Jones Thompson
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Notepad++ writes a lot to disk after closing
I decided to open the disk usage statistics in Resource Monitor, and discovered that after closing notepad++.exe, even if there were no files open, a large write to the disk occurs. In the first second, the speed is approximately 4 MB/s, then less:…
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How can I figure out what process is constantly accessing my hard drive in Windows XP?
I am running a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 with a very minimal set of applications installed, but even so, my computer often bogs down to a crawl while it is furiously accessing the hard drive, lighting the disk activity light solid for a minute…
Tim Lara
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How to understand disk activity view charts of the Windows 7 resource monitor?
The disk activity monitor charts show blue line, green line with the green shaded area below and sometimes also the orange line. Of course, the higher the lines the more the activity and horizontal axis is clearly the time but what is exactly…
h22
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Hard drive louder in Linux
When I run Linux (Any distribution it seems, Fedora 15, 16, Ubuntu from 2009 to latest version...), the hard drive seem to sound significantly louder. It seems a LOT more active when it read/write files, and the clicks it makes are a lot louder. I…
Alex
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Ubuntu: tool for displaying disk activity in general and by process
My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit.
I suspect that the sluggishness is due to disk activity since the CPU usage is consistently…
GJ.
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Why don't Macs have hard drive activity lights?
After seeing this question, it made me wonder: why don't Macs have hard drive activity lights?
It seems there is no actual meaningful use for them nowadays, so is that why Apple decided not to include them on Macs?
If so, why do PC manufacturers…
Connor W
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What is happening in my external HD with the activity light still blinking after having been unmounted?
I have an external HD (WD 2TB My Passport Ultra) that I use with my Mac for Time Machine backup. Everything is working fine. An oddity though: When I eject the drive, the Mac has no complaints, but usually (always?) the HD activity light will…
Brie
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Find out which program is using all the disk when my screen saver is on
Right after my computer wakes up when I press a key, the disk usage drops from 100% to 5%. How do I find out which program is using the disk?
Windows 8.1, and I have a black screen saver, it's not running anything or any animations for the screen…
Chloe
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Slow Harddrive is Dragging the System
I have an HP Pro 3000 SFF running Window 8.1 Update 1 & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It uses an Intel G45s Chipset, a Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500 GB harddrive, an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor, and has 4 GB (now 8 GB) of installed RAM. [More machine specs…
Oliver Spryn
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Mac/Linux equivalent to resource monitor's disk activity with filenames?
In Windows, the resource monitor allows you to see the filenames associated with the disk activity, but tools like iotop and activity only show overall disk activity from processes instead of the individual files being accessed. Is there such a…
chaz
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Drives reading constantly, how do I see a disk's queue? (not the queue length)
Here's my problem. Since around two days ago, I noticed that my external HDD LED kept blinking, even though no programs were running. So I checked Task Manager and discovered that something is reading the drive constantly. Stable around 24-26 KB/s.…
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Why does Photoshop generate 32GB of temp files for a 110MB PDF export?
Today I saved a 90MB PSD file as (Photoshop) PDF file (using "Save As" in Photoshop CS6). Before and after saving, I checked the disk activity details in Activity Monitor on my Mac. It turned out that during the save process, Photoshop wrote 32GB to…
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