[jaws-uk] Re: computers running slowly
- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:37:36 +0100
Hi,
For the short time I ran Vista I seem to remember a scheduled
defragmentation set by default, though I suspect that most of the disk
activity was the indexing part. I moved back to XP and never looked
back :).
So, enough people have persuaded me that I need to defragment my disk,
so I defragmented my OS drive which is a250GB RAID0 pair. It told me
that the disk didn't need defragmenting, which surprised me as it had
never been done, and then took over an hour to do some stuff on the
drive. The data drive (which is a 1TB RAID0 pair), said it was 5%
fragmented, but only took a few minutes to defragment. I suspect this
may be because the drive has been filling up over time, without too many
deletes, although I do run several subversion checkouts against that
drive, so in another way I suspected more fragmentation.
Not sure if the RAID0 complicates things, because the data is split
across the 2 drives in the set.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: 16 October 2008 22:23
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: computers running slowly
Hi Andrew,
The disk activity you hear when your Vista system is idle is
the infernal indexing process. It is supposed to provide
you with fast searches for files, text and all sorts. But
it's a major overhead, and a paid in the proverbial,
especially when you cold boot.
With Vista you can set up scheduled defragmentation, though
I don't feel it is particularly efficient.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew
Hodgson
Sent: 16 October 2008 20:48
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: computers running slowly
Hi,
Do people really find that running these defrag utilities
make a difference? I used to do this back in the old
Windows days, but I am used to Linux and other operating
systems where this wasn't really necessary, and I never
really ran the defrag application under Windows XP, though
note that Vista does some sort of defrag automatically when
idle.
Andrew.
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