Which app is using the disk?

[Larry Serflaten]

I have recently noticed my hard drive light coming on rather often.
From the Task Manager I find some service is writing about 25K
bytes to disk, every second. It showed the culprit was svchost,
so I fired up TList and found these services were using that dll:

492 svchost.exe Svcs: EventSystem,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,SENS,TapiSrv

Is there anyway I can narrow it down to which service is doing
so much disk access? My system is on 24/7 and I don't like
seeing the drive being used like that. 25K every second? What
could possibly need that sort of support?

LFS

 

[Peter Forster [MVP]]

Hello Larry!

Is there anyway I can narrow it down to which service is doing
so much disk access? My system is on 24/7 and I don't like
seeing the drive being used like that. 25K every second? What
could possibly need that sort of support?

Try with Filemon http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml to
find out which File is written. Maybe that helps to find the service which
makes this stuff.

Otherwise download an advanced Task-Manager
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/ and find out more about the tasks which
are running.

 

[Larry Serflaten]

Hello Larry!



Try with Filemon http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml to
find out which File is written. Maybe that helps to find the service which
makes this stuff.

Thanks for that, but it seems I might as well give up on it. After watching
FileMon record over 200,000 operations in about 5 minutes, it just doesn't
seem possible that I would be able to reduce the disk usage by any significant
amount. Between the anti virus, and firewall software constantly checking
files and writting there own stuff, it seems this one service is the least of
my worries!

I appreciate the help....
LFS

 

[Enkidu]

I have recently noticed my hard drive light coming on rather often.
From the Task Manager I find some service is writing about 25K
bytes to disk, every second. It showed the culprit was svchost,
so I fired up TList and found these services were using that dll:

492 svchost.exe Svcs: EventSystem,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,SENS,TapiSrv

Is there anyway I can narrow it down to which service is doing
so much disk access? My system is on 24/7 and I don't like
seeing the drive being used like that. 25K every second? What
could possibly need that sort of support?

Try stopping the Indexing Service. I don't know if it uses svchost
though.

Cheers,

Cliff