WinXP reading/writing to HDD all the time...

Hi. . . Where can I see all the harddisk accesses or something because I would like to find out why my disk drive is almost all the time active and what application or process is causing this. . . .

Windows Software 5498 This topic was started by iks, 2002-01-15 17:07

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iks

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#74024

2002-01-15 18:07

Hi...

Where can I see all the harddisk accesses or something because I would like to find out why my disk drive is almost all the time active and what application or process is causing this...

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CUViper

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#74025

2002-01-15 21:01

Sysinternals has a great utility called Filemon that will do exactly what you're asking for.

iks

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#74026

2002-01-16 15:09

Thaks!
I found out that CIDEAMON.EXE was hanging on my HDD all the time, so I idled indexing service and solved the problem... Thanks, again this proggy is great!

iks

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#74027

2002-01-17 05:18

Hi, I have one more question about Indexing Service and cidaemon.exe...

Why is Indexing Service good for? I mean cidaemon.exe hangs on my HDD all and every time... nonstop... It's just scrabbling all the time... What's good advantage of Indexing Service? Just to find a file a few seconds faster than without indexing? Does system works faster if disk drives are indexed? I am about to manualy disable indexing service but I am affraid I am going to loose performance because of this...

Most of it's time, Indexing service is doing (infinitely) this and nothing else:

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4 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
5 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
6 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
7 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
8 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
9 14:52:38 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
10 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
11 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
12 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
13 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
14 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
15 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
16 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
17 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
18 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
19 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
20 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
21 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
22 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
23 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
24 14:52:39 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
25 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
26 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
27 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
28 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
29 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
30 14:52:43 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
31 14:52:44 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CREATE C:\ SUCCESS Attributes: Any
Options: Open Directory
32 14:52:44 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLEANUP C:\ SUCCESS
33 14:52:44 cidaemon.exe:1644 IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\ SUCCESS
(and multiply this block by millions...)
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Thanks for help,
-Andrej