Re: hard drive impact on overall system performance
- From: "Mike Redrobe" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT
steve.anon@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Let me explain: my current box is a p4 3Ghz, 1Gig of ddr2 ram, win xp.
> The hard drive is 180gig SATA. It plays the latest video games, etc,
> no problem. But, say I unrar a 600 meg file, that's when I can hear
> the drive go in overdrive. Fair enough as it's probalby reading and
> writing at the same time, but that doesn't explain why the machine
> slows down to crawl when that happens.
If something else accesses the drive (i.e windows system, or swap),
then it has to wait longer.
> What I don't understand is why it slows down at all. After all I'm
> using only 200meg of ram, so there's no reason for swapping. Unraring
> a file itself takes very little ram if any. No, it seems to be just
> 'using' a drive that somehow overload the bus and slows down the rest.
Windows task scheduling isn't the best, open task manager and set
the priority of the task using most cpu to "BelowNormal"
If you have multiple disks, move your swap file to another disk,
and keep disk operations off the windows drive as much as possible.
Enabling hyperthreading on your P4 might help too.
If you have lots of ram, you can setup a ramdrive b: and use that
for temporary files...
--
Mike
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