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I am still seeking why my XP SP2 is bogging down.
DFPM.EXE shows low CPU usage (often 0%), 2GB free 'Page Memory', 500K free 'physical memory', 81GB HDD free space. I see no problems here, I notice I constantly bog down often when I do a cut and paste of several JPGs, often 20 or 30 ~50GB files. Also when I do a file 'rename'. Suggests to me insufficient RAM - but I am using 1GB of DDR. TIA for any suggestions/directions. Gecko |
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You just answered your own question. You are working with HUGE files that
are swamping your RAM and forcing page outs to the harddrive. THAT will always slow your system to a crawl. -- --DaveW "gecko" wrote in message ... I am still seeking why my XP SP2 is bogging down. DFPM.EXE shows low CPU usage (often 0%), 2GB free 'Page Memory', 500K free 'physical memory', 81GB HDD free space. I see no problems here, I notice I constantly bog down often when I do a cut and paste of several JPGs, often 20 or 30 ~50GB files. Also when I do a file 'rename'. Suggests to me insufficient RAM - but I am using 1GB of DDR. TIA for any suggestions/directions. Gecko |
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:30:57 -0800, "DaveW"
wrote: You just answered your own question. You are working with HUGE files that are swamping your RAM and forcing page outs to the harddrive. THAT will always slow your system to a crawl. Think another GB will help? G |
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:30:57 -0800, "DaveW"
wrote: You just answered your own question. You are working with HUGE files that are swamping your RAM and forcing page outs to the harddrive. THAT will always slow your system to a crawl. Since my prior post, I have been experimenting. I wanted to prove or disprove that hardware, in particular RAM, was the culprit slowing me down when I process a large set of JPEGs. So - I installed a copy of XP SP2 on a spare hard drive, added only the drivers and software to adapt XP to my computer plus the few applications involved in picture processing. I also added AVGFREE. Guess what? Things fly! Therefore I assume that my computer hardware will suffice to do the job. The culprit(s) slowing me down with the other hard drive surely must be the various other application(s) running at the time I was processing my pictures. I went back and tried eliminating many tasks co-running (in Task Manager), but nothing seems to speed things up. I may just continue doing my picture processing using the second hard drive, since it does so well. I can and have set up the two hard drives to be selectable at boot, so I can boot up whichever one I want. I'll have to live with that, until I get another idea. Thanks for helps Gecko |
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:14:29 GMT, gecko
wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:30:57 -0800, "DaveW" wrote: You just answered your own question. You are working with HUGE files that are swamping your RAM and forcing page outs to the harddrive. THAT will always slow your system to a crawl. Since my prior post, I have been experimenting. I wanted to prove or disprove that hardware, in particular RAM, was the culprit slowing me down when I process a large set of JPEGs. So - I installed a copy of XP SP2 on a spare hard drive, added only the drivers and software to adapt XP to my computer plus the few applications involved in picture processing. I also added AVGFREE. Guess what? Things fly! Therefore I assume that my computer hardware will suffice to do the job. The culprit(s) slowing me down with the other hard drive surely must be the various other application(s) running at the time I was processing my pictures. I went back and tried eliminating many tasks co-running (in Task Manager), but nothing seems to speed things up. I may just continue doing my picture processing using the second hard drive, since it does so well. I can and have set up the two hard drives to be selectable at boot, so I can boot up whichever one I want. I'll have to live with that, until I get another idea. Thanks for helps Gecko Most things running in the background on a system don't take much CPU time, rather they eat up a lot of the memory so you have less available for the jobs you run, but you didn't mention exactly what processing a large set of JPEGs involves. If the other background apps are heavily accessing the hard drive that too could make a difference, but it seems doubtful as you'd then notice the performance degradation in many tasks not just this one. You have not mentioned the particulars of your jobs nor the specifics of the hardware, so we can't really say where the weakest link is. From your comments above and the typical scenarios, it seems likely you just need to add more memory to the system. Looking at Task Manager you can also compare on both Windows installations, how much memory is used and available, and while running the image job you can see how much memory it's using. |
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gecko wrote:
I am still seeking why my XP SP2 is bogging down. Hard drive space left? -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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