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    From dmbourke@dmbourke@hotmail.com (dave) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Monday, August 04, 2003 09:39:32
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    I'm running windows 2000 Professional. Every so often when the system
    is idle I can hear crunching of the hard drive, either reads or
    writes. If I open up Task Manager, nothing shows as using excessive
    CPU or Memory. How can I figure out what process is reading from my
    hard drive? Is there a way to check this through MS Performance
    manager?

    thanks,
    Dave
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@yoinks@ebalu.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Monday, August 04, 2003 17:28:38
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    On 4 Aug 2003 09:39:32 -0700, dmbourke@hotmail.com (dave) wrote:

    I'm running windows 2000 Professional. Every so often when the system
    is idle I can hear crunching of the hard drive, either reads or
    writes. If I open up Task Manager, nothing shows as using excessive
    CPU or Memory. How can I figure out what process is reading from my
    hard drive? Is there a way to check this through MS Performance
    manager?

    I do not know about Performance Manager, but try SysInternal's
    FileMonitor ( http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
    ). It shows you -live or via log- what processes are accessing the
    hard drive, and when. It's free and it runs on both the 9x and NT
    lines.

    However, your problem may be nothing more than Windows resizing it's
    pagefile. You may wish to set the minimum and maximum size to the same
    value (the rule of thumb is 2.5 times total RAM) to prevent this.




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  • From Mike Walsh@mikew137@sbcglobal.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Monday, August 04, 2003 18:04:16
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    Probably writing to the page file. WinNT based OSs will access the page file even when there is free memory available.

    dave wrote:

    I'm running windows 2000 Professional. Every so often when the system
    is idle I can hear crunching of the hard drive, either reads or
    writes. If I open up Task Manager, nothing shows as using excessive
    CPU or Memory. How can I figure out what process is reading from my
    hard drive? Is there a way to check this through MS Performance
    manager?

    thanks,
    Dave

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    Mike Walsh
    West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
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