Re: Which app is using the disk?

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From: Enkidu (enkidu_at_xyzcliffpxyz.com)
Date: 06/15/04


Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:44:28 +1200

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:56:39 -0500, "Larry Serflaten"
<serflaten@usinternet.com> wrote:

>I have recently noticed my hard drive light coming on rather often.
>>From the Task Manager I find some service is writing about 25K
>bytes to disk, every second. It showed the culprit was svchost,
>so I fired up TList and found these services were using that dll:
>
> 492 svchost.exe Svcs: EventSystem,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,SENS,TapiSrv
>
>Is there anyway I can narrow it down to which service is doing
>so much disk access? My system is on 24/7 and I don't like
>seeing the drive being used like that. 25K every second? What
>could possibly need that sort of support?
>
Try stopping the Indexing Service. I don't know if it uses svchost
though.

Cheers,

Cliff



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