Too much HD activity
Terry Yingling
using win95. And it seems to be slowly getting worse. I have a 486 DX2 66
Mhz with 8 meg memory. When loading programs it seems to be taking more time
than before and there is a whole lot of HD activity going on IE the drive
light is on a lot. Even something as simple as changing folders in the
explorer takes far longer to do than when I first loaded win95 and a whole lot
longer than the equivalent activity in windows 3.1. I am beginning to think
that maybe win95 is not set up properly as it almost sounds like disk
thrashing to me. There is so much disk work going on that in some programs
when a pop up window is erased I can see it disappear from top to bottom line
by line and this is accompanied by a lot of continual disk activity. If I
were running windows 3.1 I would say it even sounds like the permanent HD
cache was being rewritten bit by bit for almost everything being done. Does
anyone have any ideas about what to look for. Is there a setting I should
look at or could the windows 3.1 files be screwing up win95?
Thanks for your ideas in advance.
Terry
Clarence Pendleton
Is the drive that the swap file is on fragmented? With only 8 meg there is
respectable disk access to the swap file(not as much as you are descriping).
Try defragmenting the drive. Also check to see if the hard drive(s) are in
dos compatability mode. This also degrades performance(no cache).
Hope this helps.
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Little Tyke
: I am stumped. I am getting what I believe is way too much disk accessing when
: using win95. And it seems to be slowly getting worse. I have a 486 DX2 66
: Mhz with 8 meg memory. When loading programs it seems to be taking more time
Did you check to see how badly your drive is fragmented? Right click on
the C: in My Computer, select properties, then the tools tab, click
defragment.
Of course you could always throw more memory at it.
Bryan
Howell
>Bryan
Had the same problem with my P133 and 8mb of ram. Added another 8mb
of ram and the disk accessing stopped. I understand that Win95
requires 10 mb of ram to operate without having to use the hard disk's
virtual memory. I got my 8mb edo rams for less than $200
delivered....
Bernard Lépine
>I am stumped. I am getting what I believe is way too much disk accessing when
>using win95. And it seems to be slowly getting worse. I have a 486 DX2 66
>Mhz with 8 meg memory. When loading programs it seems to be taking more time
>than before and there is a whole lot of HD activity going on IE the drive
>light is on a lot. Even something as simple as changing folders in the
>explorer takes far longer to do than when I first loaded win95 and a whole lot
>longer than the equivalent activity in windows 3.1. I am beginning to think
>that maybe win95 is not set up properly as it almost sounds like disk
>thrashing to me. There is so much disk work going on that in some programs
>when a pop up window is erased I can see it disappear from top to bottom line
>by line and this is accompanied by a lot of continual disk activity. If I
>were running windows 3.1 I would say it even sounds like the permanent HD
>cache was being rewritten bit by bit for almost everything being done. Does
>anyone have any ideas about what to look for. Is there a setting I should
>look at or could the windows 3.1 files be screwing up win95?
>
>Thanks for your ideas in advance.
>
>Terry
With 16 meg now, my HDD activity is reduce around 70% less.
Your solution is to add more RAM to stop HDD abusive activity.