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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2900.1 | | COOKIE::FROEHLIN | VMS...riding into the setting sun! | Tue Apr 08 1997 17:04 | 13 |
| One sure reason is the disk cache. It takes up close to all what's left of
free memory minus some cushion. After a few (10?) minutes or
some disk inactivity period "dirty" pages from the cache are written
to disk to make disk cache memory readily available for other use.
It's really hard to tell on Windows 95 how much memory is really in
use.
Also I have noticed disk activities even after hours I haven't touched
the system. Don't know where this is coming from. Maybe triggered by
something behind the network or RAS connection (Bill Gates tunelling
in?)?
Guenther
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| 2900.2 | P1? nah... | BSS::PROCTOR_R | PC....Politically Corrupt | Tue Apr 08 1997 18:32 | 1 |
| or see note 2899.* for other possible activity-related reasons.
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| 2900.3 | | WOTVAX::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Wed Apr 09 1997 06:23 | 4 |
| >> running besides Quake.
Quake is very heavy on resources, it's probably expanding your swop
file.
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| 2900.4 | | BULEAN::BANKS | Saturn Sap | Wed Apr 09 1997 08:36 | 2 |
| Or, as usual, Microsoft Office's Find Fast daemon. It always seems to
want to beat the crap out of my disk, just when I least want it to.
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| 2900.5 | How do you shut off fast find ? | ODIXIE::RREEVES | | Wed Apr 09 1997 09:56 | 3 |
| I would be suprised if Quake had anything to do with it, I have 32
megabytes of memory. I just upgraded to MS Office 97 so maybe it's
the Fast find daemon. How do you shut that little bugger off ?
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| 2900.6 | | NPSS::GLASER | Steve Glaser DTN 226-7212 LKG1-2/W6 (G17) | Wed Apr 09 1997 10:00 | 5 |
| Control Panel Find Fast icon is used to configure the Office 97 Find
Fast Daemon.
It can also be used to pause things when the daemon is getting in the
way.
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| 2900.7 | | WOTVAX::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Wed Apr 09 1997 10:09 | 4 |
| >> would be suprised if Quake had anything to do with it, I have 32
I wouldn't be surprised at all, Quake nicks as much memory as it can.
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| 2900.8 | VirusScan | ACISS1::s_coghill.dyo.dec.com::CoghillS | Steve Coghill, NSIS Solution Architect | Wed Apr 09 1997 12:41 | 1 |
| Also, some virus scanners work in the background.
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| 2900.9 | Thanks for all your suggestions | ODIXIE::RREEVES | | Wed Apr 09 1997 16:18 | 6 |
| I shut the Virus scanner off and this just started about the time
I upgraded to Office 97. So heres the deal, I'll shutdown fast find
and blast some fellow Quakers on the Internet for an evening or two
and report back what I find.
Thanks for all your suggestions
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| 2900.10 | Mine rattles too | SNOFS1::16.153.96.192::powellronald | Australia! | Wed Apr 09 1997 20:02 | 10 |
| I am running Dashboard 95 on a 64Mb pentium 120 machine. One of the features is
that it has a resource screen showing memory in use, threads, virtual machine
and disk capacity. This may help give you enough information on what is going
on. My W95 running office 95 does the disk rattling thing as well, as does a
collegues winnt4.0 machine running office95. Dashboard 95 can be downloaded from
the web as a full function 30 day trial copy from Starfish, use Alta Vista to
find the site.
Ron Powell.
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| 2900.11 | Another data point | CADSYS::GROSS | The bug stops here | Thu Apr 10 1997 10:18 | 3 |
| My W95 P133 with 40MB but no OFFICE* does the same thing.
Dave
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| 2900.12 | another h-d 'exerciser' | STRATA::LPIPER | | Thu Apr 10 1997 13:58 | 5 |
| and then there's my rig at home that thrashes the hard drive for a
minute or two well after I've put away EasyPhoto. What it's doing
and why is beyond me! but rattle away it does! No 'office' on this
one either.
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| 2900.13 | Swap file? | EPS::GUARINO | | Thu Apr 10 1997 14:40 | 5 |
| Could the thrashing be the swap file? I have noticed, after
closing programs, that the swap file changes size and also
after the disk was thrashing.
Vin
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| 2900.14 | It is the swap file | VARDAF::CHURCH | Dave Church@VBE (DTN 828-6125) | Fri Apr 11 1997 04:49 | 10 |
| RE:.13
I've taken a directory listing while running MS-Exchange and took a
listing after exiting [waiting about a minute or so for the disk
activity to start/finish]
While running MS-Exchange - WIN386.SWP - 13,631,488 bytes
after exiting 3,923,968
Dave
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| 2900.15 | | BUSY::SLAB | A Parting Shot in the Dark | Fri Apr 11 1997 08:30 | 7 |
|
Strange.
I just got the error "Invalid I/O channel" when trying to get into
this conference 20 seconds ago, and the first unseen was in this
note.
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| 2900.16 | Wintop? | CHEFS::TREVENNOR_A | A child of init | Fri Apr 11 1997 08:39 | 11 |
| Ray,
Can you run wintop.exe (from the addons kit) to show who is doing
all this I/O? I have much edperience of using games in Win95 (strictly
for business purposes - no honestly!) and I have observed the same
things with other titles. I agree with the others it sounds like swap
file management (contraction and optimisation). Unix systems do similar
stuff.
Regards
Alan T.
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| 2900.17 | hmmmm... | PCBUOA::gizmo.ako.dec.com::rsud | | Fri Apr 11 1997 12:24 | 10 |
| Have you gotten the "socket problem" fix 95??
Programs which use sockets extensively can cause hard disk
access due to a memory "leak".
Don't know what apps or game you are running, but if they
use sockets...then try the patch from MS.
Regards,
Rajehs.
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| 2900.18 | Disk activity | MIPSBX::"[email protected]" | Alfred Wilms | Mon Apr 14 1997 10:06 | 20 |
| Suggestions for a 32 Meg System
1. In System.ini under [Vcache] put
MinFileCache=6144
MaxFileCache=6144
This will take care of the disk cashing
2. Optional
Defrag your disk (don't forget!!!)
Under Settings/System/Performance/Virtual Memory
define your Virtual memory settings as Fixed Min : 64MB; Max : 200Mb
This will reduce a lot announces caused by Swapfile Changes
How this all works ?
See: AltaVista : +Win95 +FAQ +Vcache
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 2900.19 | Did you mean...? and if you've plenty of disk space? | VARDAF::CHURCH | Dave Church@VBE (DTN 828-6125) | Fri May 09 1997 05:08 | 20 |
| re:.18
## define your Virtual memory settings as Fixed Min : 64MB; Max : 200Mb
Do you enter 64MB and 200MB as is, or 64 and 200, or...?
As you get a warning that you can screw your system up I'm a little
nervous with getting it wrong... e.g. can't restart the PC!
Also if you're running with plenty of free disk space [>1.4GB] could
you up the figures for both the MinFileCache/MaxFileCache and Virtual
memory settings?
I'm looking at later going to 64MB of mem would the above figures still
be optimum or should they be upped/reduced?
Thnx,
Dave
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