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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 ...
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Windows 7 (64 bits) on Lenovo L530 Constant 100% Highest Active Time
My laptop became unresponsive recently. I searched for the root cause and I found out that my resource monitor shows 100 percent of Highest Active Time for the disk and not much i/o with it. The ...
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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 ...
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Lots of disk I/O despite free RAM
I have a windows XP installation on a A7N8x machine with an Athlon XP processor and 1GB of RAM. I'm using this as a development machine with just Firefox/Chrome (usually a 10-15 tabs open) and Eclipse ...
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What files are accessed often?
Our antivirus scans every file every time it's accessed. We've been invited to provide directory paths on our workstations where "safe" and vigorous disk/IO activity occurs (compiling, for example -- ...
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Disk activity periodically high from temp files that look like “2FQgISac.exe.part” and are signed by MS
My computer is periodically bogged down by disk activity that I've tracked down to files of an usual type.
The symptom is that my computer UI bogs down (mouse stutters, UI buttons lag, etc).
While ...
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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 ...
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Why dont Macs have hard drive activity lights? [closed]
After seeing this question, it made me wonder; Why dont 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 ...
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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, ...
