Hard Drive Running Constantly - Win2K-Pro

[Guest Gordon]

This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if

the hard drive is running all the time.

 

I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is

one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances

and has a high CPU usage at times.

 

I checked Google and this appears to be a common

problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.

 

Is there a solution for this?

 

Thank you

 

Gordon

[Guest philo]

Re: Hard Drive Running Constantly - Win2K-Pro

 

 

"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

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> This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if

> the hard drive is running all the time.

>

> I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is

> one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances

> and has a high CPU usage at times.

>

> I checked Google and this appears to be a common

> problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.

>

> Is there a solution for this?

>

> Thank you

>

> Gordon

>

 

Some system specs would be helpful...

For example, if your machine does not have enough RAM there may be constant

harddrive activity due to the pagefile being accessed.

 

In general 128megs of RAM would be a bare minimum for win2k...

but 256megs or more would be desirable.

 

If it's an older machine with a slow harddrive... 128 megs will not be

enough

 

 

It's normal for there to be several instances of svchost.exe running...and a

typical memory usage would be

 

5 - 20 k

 

Do you see any process taking considerably more than 25k of memory?

[Guest Gordon]

Re: Hard Drive Running Constantly - Win2K-Pro

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:19:30 -0500, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

>

>"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

>news:r595045tp5ibkls3r97ru4ffdc4sc9f15i@4ax.com...

>> This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if

>> the hard drive is running all the time.

>>

>> I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is

>> one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances

>> and has a high CPU usage at times.

>>

>> I checked Google and this appears to be a common

>> problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.

>>

>> Is there a solution for this?

>>

>> Thank you

>>

>> Gordon

>>

>

>Some system specs would be helpful...

>For example, if your machine does not have enough RAM there may be constant

>harddrive activity due to the pagefile being accessed.

>

>In general 128megs of RAM would be a bare minimum for win2k...

>but 256megs or more would be desirable.

>

>If it's an older machine with a slow harddrive... 128 megs will not be

>enough

>

>

>It's normal for there to be several instances of svchost.exe running...and a

>typical memory usage would be

>

>5 - 20 k

>

>Do you see any process taking considerably more than 25k of memory?

>

 

Hi Philo,

 

a. The system has 256 MB RAM. Swap file at 500 - 750MB.

 

b. Memory usage I have seen as high as 26k but most are as you

said 5 - 20 k.

 

c Without any applications running I just counted four instances of

svchost.exe running.

 

d. CPU usage is mostly around 1 - 5% - but I have seen it go as high

as 95%.

 

 

Gordon

[Guest philo]

Re: Hard Drive Running Constantly - Win2K-Pro

 

 

"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

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> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:19:30 -0500, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

>

> >

> >"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

> >news:r595045tp5ibkls3r97ru4ffdc4sc9f15i@4ax.com...

> >> This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if

> >> the hard drive is running all the time.

> >>

> >> I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is

> >> one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances

> >> and has a high CPU usage at times.

> >>

> >> I checked Google and this appears to be a common

> >> problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.

> >>

> >> Is there a solution for this?

> >>

> >> Thank you

> >>

> >> Gordon

> >>

> >

> >Some system specs would be helpful...

> >For example, if your machine does not have enough RAM there may be

constant

> >harddrive activity due to the pagefile being accessed.

> >

> >In general 128megs of RAM would be a bare minimum for win2k...

> >but 256megs or more would be desirable.

> >

> >If it's an older machine with a slow harddrive... 128 megs will not be

> >enough

> >

> >

> >It's normal for there to be several instances of svchost.exe

running...and a

> >typical memory usage would be

> >

> >5 - 20 k

> >

> >Do you see any process taking considerably more than 25k of memory?

> >

>

> Hi Philo,

>

> a. The system has 256 MB RAM. Swap file at 500 - 750MB.

>

> b. Memory usage I have seen as high as 26k but most are as you

> said 5 - 20 k.

>

> c Without any applications running I just counted four instances of

> svchost.exe running.

>

> d. CPU usage is mostly around 1 - 5% - but I have seen it go as high

> as 95%.

>

>

> Gordon

>

>

 

 

With 256megs of RAM you should be plenty good

all I can think of would be to open up taskmanager and see if anything has

spiked up

to correspond with the high cpu usage

[Guest Poutnik]

Re: Hard Drive Running Constantly - Win2K-Pro

 

In article <eDxkbxnnIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, Mon, 14 Apr 2008

17:08:13 -0500 philo says...

>

> "Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

> news:ulf504dfkpuaa9cmk50popnseqjqfab58g@4ax.com...

> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:19:30 -0500, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

> >

> > >

> > >"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message

> > >news:r595045tp5ibkls3r97ru4ffdc4sc9f15i@4ax.com...

> > >> This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if

> > >> the hard drive is running all the time.

> > >>

> > >> I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is

> > >> one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances

> > >> and has a high CPU usage at times.

> > >>

> > >> I checked Google and this appears to be a common

> > >> problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.

> > >>

> > >> Is there a solution for this?

> > >>

> > >> Thank you

> > >>

> > >> Gordon

> > >>

> > >

> > >Some system specs would be helpful...

> > >For example, if your machine does not have enough RAM there may be

> constant

> > >harddrive activity due to the pagefile being accessed.

> > >

> > >In general 128megs of RAM would be a bare minimum for win2k...

> > >but 256megs or more would be desirable.

> > >

> > >If it's an older machine with a slow harddrive... 128 megs will not be

> > >enough

> > >

> > >

> > >It's normal for there to be several instances of svchost.exe

> running...and a

> > >typical memory usage would be

> > >

> > >5 - 20 k

> > >

> > >Do you see any process taking considerably more than 25k of memory?

> > >

> >

> > Hi Philo,

> >

> > a. The system has 256 MB RAM. Swap file at 500 - 750MB.

> >

> > b. Memory usage I have seen as high as 26k but most are as you

> > said 5 - 20 k.

> >

> > c Without any applications running I just counted four instances of

> > svchost.exe running.

> >

> > d. CPU usage is mostly around 1 - 5% - but I have seen it go as high

> > as 95%.

> >

> >

> > Gordon

> >

> >

>

>

> With 256megs of RAM you should be plenty good

> all I can think of would be to open up taskmanager and see if anything has

> spiked up

> to correspond with the high cpu usage

>

>

>

I would suggest monitoring disk operations

with utility ProcMon by Sysinternals ( now MS ).

 

First try to use filter with usage

"operation contains writefile" as monitored action.

 

Some apps like logging all the time.

or some desktop searches or indexing services makes indexing.

if unsuccesfull, try other possibilities, procmon is feature rich....