Questions tagged [disk-activity]
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Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted?
Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted? I am using macOS 14.3.1.
The noise is very similar to, or the same as, that the drive makes when writing ...
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How to prevent windows idle sleep if there is disk activity?
Searching for these keywords online is difficult. I'm trying to find out if there are any hardware activity based idle thresholds in Windows (11), that are tweakable or that I can take advantage of, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hard drive loud activity noise after it has finished writing data
I have an issue with a hard drive making loud activity noises after it has finished writing data.
I am running Linux.
For example, if I copy a file (60GB), then once copying has finished the drive ...
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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 ...
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How can one see how much total reads and writes (in bytes) a given file has received cumulatively since Windows started?
I started Microsoft Windows a few hours ago. I would like to see how much total reads and writes (in bytes) a given file has received cumulatively since Windows started. Windows Results Monitor doesn'...
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Windows HardDisk Activity
System 4 PID continuously reads from and writes to my disk. I can't disable it.
Disabled Windows Update, Windows Antivirus, Windows Search.
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Hard drive activity creates noise every 3 seconds. Is there any way to deal with this without unplugging the drive?
In my computer, I have an NVMe system drive and a 2TB Seagate HDD secondary drive. My hard drive has activity every 3 or so seconds. This wouldn't normally bother me except it makes a sound every time ...
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System process disk activity
I've detected some disk activity by 'System' process. Checked Windows Update and Task scheduler, nothing. Checked Event Viewer, only activity I can see is numerous journals being created in 'Security ...
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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 ...
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Task Manager shows disk usage at 50% and 100% at the same time
While creating a dualboot VM (to test dual booting operating systems before doing it on a real machine), I looked at the Task Manager. This was the disk usage shown in the Overview tab.
This was the ...
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New hybrid drive (Seagate Desktop SHDD) suddenly is slowing down.
I have a two months old 2TB Seagate Desktop SSHD.
I’m running this SSHD as a secondary drive (have an SSD running as boot), being a "backup" drive.
I've created two partitions with it:
one with 1....
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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 ...
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Interaction between Windows Application Experience and Windows Defender leading to 100% disk active time
This has been driving me up the wall for some time, but I think I may have finally caught (one of) the instigator(s) in the act.
Solutions already tried with no effect:
I have run chkdsk
I do ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is there anyway to produce realistic load(cpu,memory and disk all together) on a linux system?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to stress test my system but most of benchmarks are specific in nature. Either they are benchmarking Disk or CPU or Memory usage etc. But is there anything which can ...
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HDD activity causes lag
Whenever there is activity on the main HDD, my PC starts to lag. Most noticeably, the audio starts to stutter and slow down, and the fps in games drops by over 50%.
It gets worse as hard drive ...
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Windows 8.1 Hard drive constantly access but Task manager only shows low usage (< 5%)
I have been running Windows 8.1 for a year and within the last couple weeks I noticed the disk drive constantly being accessed. However, the disk light on the machine is barely coming on so I looked ...
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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 ...
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How to get a "picture" of the computer cpu/disk activity while in a fullscreen application
I have a small issue on my computer.
From time to time, it seems like some process is turning on, maxing the cpu and disk activity for 10-15 seconds, and then stopping. This usually occurs while I'm ...
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Why does process read Offset/Length from C: drive?
Below is a clip of SysInternals Filemon in action.
What I don't understand is why various processes are reading the C: drive at an offset, rather than reading specific files.
I have noticed Windows ...
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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 ...
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Logging HDD Read/Write activity
Windows 8.0 - Acer i5 laptop, wifi to Modem/Router and Internet.
I just went to make some coffee and when I came back (about 10-mins) the hard drive light was flashing like crazy. I moved the mouse ...
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Ominous gaps in disk activity
A few times over the past hour, I've had my computer temporarily lock up on me. As CPU and RAM usage seemed okay, I looked at my disk activity in the Resource Monitor.
Having the computer slow down ...
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Why does Photoshop generate 32GB of temp files for a 110MB PDF export? [closed]
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 ...
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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 don't Macs have hard drive activity lights? [closed]
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 ...
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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, ...
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