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Hard drive always running

#1 Post by WiSaGaN » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:52 pm

I can hear my hard drive running all the time.

Even when I am not doing anything, it is still like readying or writing something like one second a time.

Is this the problem of caching or not?

What should I do with it?

Thanks in advance.

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#2 Post by sugo » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:29 am

Have you tried the filemon utility? It might give you an idea on which process is using the disk.
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#3 Post by WiSaGaN » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:50 am

What filemon logs is

there are mainly two processes doing the disk operation
many of the operations are like this.


Rtvscan.exe:2180 READ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5\Logs\04012007.Log SUCCESS Offset: 4461231 Length: 256

ccEvtMgr.exe:416 QUERY INFORMATION c:\WINDOWS\system32\SymNeti.dll SUCCESS Length: 517848

i logged for half a minute without and active programs.

and the filemon got twelve thousand entrys such as the above.

are they the real time scan thing?
I don't know how to turn them off

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#4 Post by WiSaGaN » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:49 pm

I found that option. I think i should switch the option from all types to scan to smart scan.

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#5 Post by arthurcorell » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:55 pm

I found the same thing on my laptop. The Symantec Client Security always running.

I uninstalled and using Zone Alarm now.

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#6 Post by WiSaGaN » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:15 pm

Yeah, I am using NOD32 instead of the Symantec

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#7 Post by dsigma6 » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:01 pm

Maybe unrelated, but TweakUI allows you to turn off an option, something like "Optimize HD when not in use." I don't know if that means defrag or what, but it wouldn't hurt to turn that off.
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