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Gerald Vogt
A few weeks ago it started and got worse now that Windows shows the
message "EXPLORER.EXE is not responding" during logoff/shutdown after it
has been up for a couple of hours. After 2 or 3 minutes showing this
message (I resist to abort the program), heavy hard drive activity and a
low CPU load of approx. 5-10%, mainly kernel time, it continues and
shuts down fine. Task manager shows that nothing much is happening
during this 2-3 minutes except for page faults of explorer.exe thus I
assume it must be some paging performance problem. Generally, after
these 2-3 minutes explorer.exe has accumulated another 20000 page faults
before the system continues which seems a little bit much for a 25MB
process. Sometimes, the heavy swapping for 2-3 minutes also happens
while the system is running.
The computer got a fresh XP Prof. SP2 setup from CD about two months
ago. 512 MB main memory from which there is according to task manager
1/3 still available and the total memory usage is still far from that, too.
Any ideas how to tweak the system or how to find the bottleneck? I did
not have those problems before the reinstallation...
Thanks,
Gerald
message "EXPLORER.EXE is not responding" during logoff/shutdown after it
has been up for a couple of hours. After 2 or 3 minutes showing this
message (I resist to abort the program), heavy hard drive activity and a
low CPU load of approx. 5-10%, mainly kernel time, it continues and
shuts down fine. Task manager shows that nothing much is happening
during this 2-3 minutes except for page faults of explorer.exe thus I
assume it must be some paging performance problem. Generally, after
these 2-3 minutes explorer.exe has accumulated another 20000 page faults
before the system continues which seems a little bit much for a 25MB
process. Sometimes, the heavy swapping for 2-3 minutes also happens
while the system is running.
The computer got a fresh XP Prof. SP2 setup from CD about two months
ago. 512 MB main memory from which there is according to task manager
1/3 still available and the total memory usage is still far from that, too.
Any ideas how to tweak the system or how to find the bottleneck? I did
not have those problems before the reinstallation...
Thanks,
Gerald