Disk Thrashing

[YanquiDawg]

Hey all,
I've been having a problem wth disk thrashing on an older PC that recenrly
started.Can't pin down exatly whenit began though.. It's a P3 600E running at
800(always ran at 800).
Asus CUV4X mobo(VIA 694 chipset)
128M PC133 upgraded today to 384MB.
Maxtor 10GB HD(5GB free on Primary Partition)
Windows 98 SE
Wireless logitech mouse
HP Laser Printer
The PC will be sitting for a few minutes then the thrashing starts.It doesn't
stop until you open a program or move the mouse.
I've tried everything I know including making a 400MB swap file,changing
MaX,Min File cache,shutting down running programs,including screen savers, and
adding ram.
There are eighteen entries in running processes(Ctrl,Alt,Del)
Anyone seen this before?It's got me stumped.

 

[kony]

Hey all,
I've been having a problem wth disk thrashing on an older PC that recenrly
started.Can't pin down exatly whenit began though.. It's a P3 600E running at
800(always ran at 800).
Asus CUV4X mobo(VIA 694 chipset)
128M PC133 upgraded today to 384MB.
Maxtor 10GB HD(5GB free on Primary Partition)
Windows 98 SE
Wireless logitech mouse
HP Laser Printer
The PC will be sitting for a few minutes then the thrashing starts.It doesn't
stop until you open a program or move the mouse.
I've tried everything I know including making a 400MB swap file,changing
MaX,Min File cache,shutting down running programs,including screen savers, and
adding ram.
There are eighteen entries in running processes(Ctrl,Alt,Del)
Anyone seen this before?It's got me stumped.

Have you ran a virus-scan with recent virus definitions?
Of those "eighteen entries in running processes", are there any you
can't account for?

When the thrashing starts and/jor stops, if you do a Find->Files for
files that were modified, created, accessed, etc, within that day and
sorted by time, what's being accessed?

Is it possible you have an Antivirus program set to do background
scanning? If all else fails run "msconfig" and disable everything
that loads at boot-time, then systematically re-enable/re-disable
groups of entries to narrow it down, if it makes any difference.

The following might also help you see what's going on:
http://www.webmasterfree.com/atm.html
It won't tell you about the disk access but may provide a clue as to
the program doing it.


Dave