100% disk usage

[Mittron]

I have 100% disk usage, only when downloading thing, otherwise its not even above 5%

 

[Autizmo_1]

What is your internet speed? Sounds stupid but if it's faster than your HDD speed then thats your bottlenecking issue...if not then you may need to update drivers or update browsers.

 

[Mittron]

This is my speed test http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5883530250

 

[Mittron]

It's not that bif of a deal since i don't download that much stuff, but i am gamer so if i get new game it is just pain in the ass. Not really because i have this issue like 20 minutes

 

[Autizmo_1]

This is my speed test http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5883530250

Sorry to say it but it's probably that your internet is too fast for your HDD...bummer am I right?


P.S. I run 15Mb/s

 

[Mittron]

It was just fine before even that when i did speed test yesterday i got 150 Mb/s

 

[Mittron]

What's my HDD speed tho

 

[Autizmo_1]

Holy shit, what! It was just fine before even that when i did speed test yesterday i got 150 Mb/s

Do you use Steam? I used to get 100% disk usage issues from Steam so it could just be that...

 

[Mittron]

Yes, i was thinking about saying that in the thread

 

[Mittron]

Ho can i chceck my HDD speed, and do you yhing buying SSD would help
Or more RAM? maybe ram is slow and uses hdd idk im saying but i remember that from last computing science lesson

 

[tsnor]

I have 100% disk usage, only when downloading thing, otherwise its not even above 5%

What tool is telling you 100% disk usage? Do you mean your disk is FULL of stuff, or that it is reading or writing at 100% of its effective speed.

IF disk full is what you mean please say so and people will help you delete things with disk cleanup or install a larger disk.

IF disk running at 100% throughput is what you mean then can run windows resource monitor (you can launch it out of task manager, or google it).

Post the make/model of your disk drive. Device manager will tell you if you don't know.

Post the disk queue length, MB/sec and IO response time from the resource monitor disk tab during the time you are seeing 100% disk utilization.

 

[Mittron]

I can see 100% when installing on task manager

 

[Autizmo_1]

I wouldn't expect the RAM to be the issue, however it could be. The main thing with steam is that during the downloads, if you have a 5400RPM drive it will max it out because steam runs on a torrenting network for its site, hence the fast down speeds. The fact you upload and download at the same time is usually the sole issue!

 

[tsnor]

This is my speed test http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5883530250

Sorry to say it but it's probably that your internet is too fast for your HDD...bummer am I right?


P.S. I run 15Mb/s

You are joking right? His internet is 97 mBITs per second, or about 10MBytes per second including the error recovery stuff. Even a slow spinning hard drive will hit that easily for sequential data. If the data is random access then it's not a normal internet download.

 

[Mittron]

My read speed is currently 0 kb/s and write speed is going crazy

 

[Mittron]

So what's the issue

 

[tsnor]

I can see 100% when installing on task manager

What is the transfer rate as reported in task manager when you are seeing 100% active?

 

[Mittron]

I just wanted to get 100% so i choosed random game on steam and started installing it, disk usage wen to 100% and came down to 5-10%

 

[Mittron]

I can see 100% when installing on task manager

What is the transfer rate as reported in task manager when you are seeing 100% active?

Do u hear me

 

[tsnor]

I can see 100% when installing on task manager

What is the transfer rate as reported in task manager when you are seeing 100% active?

Do u hear me

Not really. I cannot convert "writes going like crazy" to a MB/sec number so I can see if it is reasonable for the disk drive you own. The two data points needed are the drive make/model and the MB/sec.

 

[Mittron]

it's between 0 kb/s to 230 kb/s wih game in backgrounf

 

[tsnor]

it's between 0 kb/s to 230 kb/s wih game in backgrounf

That should not cause 100% disk utilization. kb/sec is not a lot of data.

Update: In case you do not use these units.
1000 KB per second = 1MB per second = 0.001GB/sec.
Modern flash drives do 100MB/sec to 400 MB/sec sequential, and 20-40 MB/sec random IOs
Modern spinning drives do 100 MB/sec sequential and maybe 400KB/sec random IO, higher with a decent queue depth.
What drive do you have? (Device manager will tell you).