Why?

[ERmergency]

Alright, my system has been up for 4 days now. I've been downloading a lot, extracting large files, I have launched many applications over and over again since I 1st booted.

My system is totally lagged now. I know it's probably my hard drive. I need to run disk defrag, but I guess my question is: Why is Windows hitting my hard drive so much? I have 512MB of memory, 768/768 pagefile, and I rarely see more than 200MB of memory used at one time.

I mean what the hell? It's there! So use it! I know If I ran disk defrag right now, it would smooth everything out with out even rebooting, but it just gripes me that Windows is this way. Multitasking is pretty shitty two, it gets even worse.

System specs:
Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
512 MB Crucial PC2700 6ns
Maxtor D740X ATA/133 40GB x2 RAID0
Highpoint RocketRAID 133 Controller
ATi Radeon 8500
Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM
Lite-On 52x CD-RW
Windows XP Profesional w/SP1

and btw, I run disk defrag pretty often. So it's not like its been awhile.

 

[bolomite]

because M$ is suck.

 

[Panther505]

What are you running in the system tray (ie what runs all the time). If you have something there that leaks memory then that may be your issue. If not then defrag using either a Norton Speed Disk or Diskeeper that will schedule it when you are not using your system and quit whining.

If you know what fixes it then why as the question(as is becomes redundant). Almost all MS OSes need to be rebooted at some time or another if you are using it as a workstation. I have had a 2K Server up for over 100 days but that was without patching it (it was behind a FW on a private lan) and without using it. Any MS OS that I have tested (as a beta tester/or a Video Test Lead) in the last 2 releases (W2K,XP) has had the same problem. They are improving just not that fast. Currently I am running Linux on 4 boxes and the average uptime is >30 per system including updates.

 

[ERmergency]

The only thing in the system tray is CoolMon. Infact, I have a lot of services disabled, and have no extra programs running at start up (besides CoolMon).

I'm not whining asshole. I'm seeking information.

Uptime has no importance to me, but I am oh so proud of you for having had a server up for 100 days.

I currently have Longhorn 4008, Windows 2003 Server build 3771, and Office 11 beta 2 All-in-one.

Oh joy

 

[Panther505]

Good for you.... You must be the pride of the Beta Maillist....


Now if you have performance issues then bounce the machine. If the problem does not go away then you may want to look at what services you have shut off. Often MS has some services that serve multiple purposes.

Next question- is the page file contigous? If not then set up a small page file, defrag, set the page file to 0, reboot to safe mode, delete pagefile.sys and then set the page file to 768 again and reboot. Pagefile will then be contigious- may see some performance increase there.

Are you running all the Betas on this system? If then expect it. Betas have shitty code in them. That is life. If not then it may be time to look at what other programs you have installed and what you are doing when the system goes into thrash mode.

Can the attitude- My initial response was to the title of you thread (very undescriptive) and the fact that the information that you gave was limited. Get over it.

Panther505

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Jesus christ, settle down

Microsoft filesystems fragment alot, that's just a fact of life. As far as memory usage, well hey, it's a beta, you should not expect it to work like a final product.

 

[civad]

Originally posted by: ERmergency
Why?

Because.

j/k

Betas should not be used as the primary OS. I am saying this while using Debian Sid

 

[ERmergency]

Sorry, uncalled for. It's just everywhere you go, people talk trash and assume you're a "n00b". Makes me sick and I get defensive about it sometimes.

I could not find pagefile.sys in safe mode. All system files are unhidden, including protected OS files. Onlything I could fine was pagefileconfig.

I am not running any of the betas except for Office 2003 Professional. I don't think it's any of the services. I carefully selected which ones I disabled. I guess I just need to face the facts, Microsoft file systems fragment a lot.

 

[Panther505]

Originally posted by: ERmergency
Sorry, uncalled for. It's just everywhere you go, people talk trash and assume you're a "n00b". Makes me sick and I get defensive about it sometimes.

I could not find pagefile.sys in safe mode. All system files are unhidden, including protected OS files. Onlything I could fine was pagefileconfig.

I am not running any of the betas except for Office 2003 Professional. I don't think it's any of the services. I carefully selected which ones I disabled. I guess I just need to face the facts, Microsoft file systems fragment a lot.

Then you may not be able to do it in Safe mode. Set the pagefile to 0 and then reboot. delete the pagefile.sys then (as I think you should be able to see it)

I was slightly out of line also - I percieved your attitude and took it the wrong way.

Try it in normal mode and post back. Check in Disk Manager to see if the page file is contigious ( you may need to defrag with the pagefile set to 0 now that I think about it)

Keep us posted