Constant writing to hard disk


  1. smtp
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Constant writing to hard disk


    Hello,



    Today I noticed my hard drive is non-stop being written to, it is so bad I constantly hear it clicking and I am afraid at this rate it might burn itself out in a matter of days.


    Usually it is the system process that is writing copious amounts of data, but I cannot pinpoint the reason behind it. I have no antivirus software and indexing service is turned off.


    Here is a screenshot of Resource Monitor:


    Constant writing to hard disk-resmon.png


    Closing Google Chrome did nothing to improve the HDD hogging.
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  3. louis925
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    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
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    Same issue


    Mine is even worse.
    When I have Chrome open, the system constantly writes 180 KB/s to the disk. Most of them to the pagefile.


    On the other hand, the system only use 31% of the 16GB memory.


    I think this happens after recent update of Chrome.
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  4. bigmck
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
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    How long has it been working non-stop? It is going to run while indexing things, but maybe an hour. How long has it been going?
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  6. louis925
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    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
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    I believe it has run several days because I don't really turn off my computer.
    I realize I can partially fix it by disable the virtual memory. But not sure if it is a good idea.
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  7. bigmck
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
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    If you have not turned it off recently, please do that for 10 minutes and then reboot. Sometimes a reboot does wonders.
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