Periodic Disc I/O at approx 1 sec

[Danman]

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My system drive is showing I/O activity approximately once a second as though
there were some keep alive heart beat was running. It prevents the drives
from going into a power down. I've play with about everything I can think
of, e.g. turning off indexing, etc. to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas?

- Dan

 

[Chuck]

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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:47:04 -0800, danman <danman@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>My system drive is showing I/O activity approximately once a second as though
>there were some keep alive heart beat was running. It prevents the drives
>from going into a power down. I've play with about everything I can think
>of, e.g. turning off indexing, etc. to no avail.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>- Dan

Dan,

To isolate the problem, try Filemon (free) from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml. If it is disk activity,
Filemon will show what file is being accessed, and what process is accessing it.
If it's NOT a file access, try Regmon and Process Explorer (both free), also
from SysInternals.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Guest]

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Do you suppose it might be a virus or spyware?

Ted Zieglar

"danman" <danman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C9768AA-52E3-45F5-9687-78F8AD3A6CFC@microsoft.com...
> My system drive is showing I/O activity approximately once a second as
> though
> there were some keep alive heart beat was running. It prevents the drives
> from going into a power down. I've play with about everything I can think
> of, e.g. turning off indexing, etc. to no avail.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> - Dan

 

[Danman]

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Chuck,
I must confess that I had never been to the sysinternals site before. Way
coool! Thanks a million for the tip. I thought I knew the behavior of most
of the services running but this adds another view into their inner workings.


The blinking HDD LED does not correlate with any hard disc I/O trapped in
FileMon; I'm headed to the ABIT site for any particulars on the IC7-G mobo
after I backout the Si3112 RAID 0 controller.

Thanks a bazillion,
- Dan

"Chuck" wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:47:04 -0800, danman <danman@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >My system drive is showing I/O activity approximately once a second as though
> >there were some keep alive heart beat was running. It prevents the drives
> >from going into a power down. I've play with about everything I can think
> >of, e.g. turning off indexing, etc. to no avail.
> >
> >Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >- Dan
>
> Dan,
>
> To isolate the problem, try Filemon (free) from
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml. If it is disk activity,
> Filemon will show what file is being accessed, and what process is accessing it.
> If it's NOT a file access, try Regmon and Process Explorer (both free), also
> from SysInternals.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>

 

[Chuck]

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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:25:07 -0800, danman <danman@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Chuck,
>I must confess that I had never been to the sysinternals site before. Way
>coool! Thanks a million for the tip. I thought I knew the behavior of most
>of the services running but this adds another view into their inner workings.
>
>
>The blinking HDD LED does not correlate with any hard disc I/O trapped in
>FileMon; I'm headed to the ABIT site for any particulars on the IC7-G mobo
>after I backout the Si3112 RAID 0 controller.
>
>Thanks a bazillion,
>- Dan

My pleasure, Dan. I've been using Process Explorer for several years, just
recently I found Autoruns, which beats hell out of MSConfig (and is somewhat
better than Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel). Then Filemon and Regmon, which
have no competition. Then there's PSTools, that let you manage your computers
remotely. And Bryce, Mark, et al provide all this stuff for nothing.

I just hope they can resist being swallowed up by MicroShaft.

Apparently Filemon at least eliminated the possibility of the observed activity
having a simple software cause. Please let us know how it turns out - everybody
posts here to learn, and everybody who posts here learns something.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.