Process lsass.exe frequently seeks the hard drive.

[yhelothar]

I've noticed that often, my hard drive would seek a lot. I looked in task manager, and checked the I/O read/write activity, and lsass numbers are constantly moving.

I looked up the process online, and it looks like it's window vista's security management process. Why does it keep seeking my hard drive, and how could I get it to stop? It's really killing system performance when it's doing so much work just idling.

 

[yhelothar]

Any ideas?

 

[BD2003]

Go into performance and reliability monitor, and see what actual files are being written/read from...then you can figure out the root cause.

 

[hans007]

make sure that that is the real lsass.exe and not some spyware that is called lsass.exe.

 

[yhelothar]

yeah it's the real one... it says microsoft corporation, and there was only one of them.

 

[yhelothar]

bumpity

 

[yhelothar]

ttt

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: astroidea
bumpity

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Originally posted by: BD2003
Go into performance and reliability monitor, and see what actual files are being written/read from...then you can figure out the root cause.

You said the lsass numbers are "constantly moving". Please be specific what are the changes over say a 60 second time frame? Do you mean I/O Read/Writes or I/O Read bytes/Write bytes?
Also what do you mean by "killing system performance when it's doing so much work just idling?". You mean your system is idling? What are you doing that is not performing well?