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I'm trying to understand why my Windows 7 machine is constantly reading/writing to the HDD, making everything go slow. As you can see in the screenshot, resmon reports that there is a lot of disk activity originating from svchost.exe (pid 756). But in Process Monitor, process 756 doesn't seem to do anything at all, except the periodical profiling. How is this even possible? They seem to contradict each other? I'm dumbstruck. How can I look further into this problem? | |||
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There are a couple of things that Windows does in the background:
Installing updates is done by TrustedInstaller.exe so that is not your problem. I do see prefetch showing up so I'm going to assume that Windows is looking for frequently used files and load them in available memory. This way, most of your applications will start faster. When you install updates you might notice a slight hiccup with your pc's performance but indexing, prefetching and defragmenting are all executed using low priority i/o which means you won't notice it. The moment you do an action that requires something from the hard drive, the low priority stuff will be halted. | |||
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Several sub process with the same PID can run inside of svhost.exe You can see what they are in task manger by right clicking on the svchost process and select go to services, this will list all the services running under that particular instance of svchost. It will highlight them for you, you may have to scroll for them to show. These are all the services running under that specific PID. Another method is to go directly to the Services Tab in Taskmanager and then click the PID column header and this will sort them, then look for your PID's Tracking down which service is causing the writes will require other software such as process monitor to sort that out. It is very powerful software and you would need to study up on how to use it
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