Re: LSASS constant disk access?

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From: Geo (Geo_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:03:09 -0700

Yes I assume this is a similar problem. I have tried disabling Terminal
Services and all othe services one at a time and monitoring the disk i/o from
lsass using Task Manager. I cannot stop lsass continuously doing disk i/o's.
It does 5-10 i/o's per second when the computer is idle.

"Bryan Martin" wrote:

> as for what it is....
>
> http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/lsass/
>
>
> "Geo" <Geo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:914C4493-7D21-491E-9F26-CF823A67FE3E@microsoft.com...
> > LSASS.EXE continuously access the hard disk when the computer is idle. I
> have
> > tried disabling Zone Alarm and virus checkers, turned off disk indexing
> etc.
> > but I cannot stop the continuous disk activity.
> > What is lsass doing and can it be stopped?
> >
>
>
>

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