High disk activity today slowing down the computer
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:31 pm
When I turned on the ward computer today to use MLS everything was running very slowly for about the first 20 minutes.
Running perfmon showed disk read activity ranging from 47% - 600% even though I wasn't running any intensive disk applications.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I thought it might be related to Sophos or something else running updates. There were no running Windows OS updates, but I didn't get a chance to grab what other processes might be using so much disk I/O for so long.
After 20 minutes the machine seemed to return to normal with disk read activity reaching 0% (idle). Just curios if anyone else has seen this.
Running perfmon showed disk read activity ranging from 47% - 600% even though I wasn't running any intensive disk applications.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I thought it might be related to Sophos or something else running updates. There were no running Windows OS updates, but I didn't get a chance to grab what other processes might be using so much disk I/O for so long.
After 20 minutes the machine seemed to return to normal with disk read activity reaching 0% (idle). Just curios if anyone else has seen this.