Keep your Disk Defragged!
Posted: Sep 25 2007
Everyone should add to your list of possible reasons for 'excessive' hits on CPU performance this item:
A fragmented disk can cause the tsserver-database-dataserver to push the CPU usage up to 50% or more, even with no charts displayed.... just collecting the 'online' symbols.
[My system has 2GB Ram and a 3GHz Pentium4, running Windows XP; MC ver 2.1.999.999]
I had no idea this problem could be so pronounced , until I remembered it had been several days since the last time I did a de-frag (using Diskkeeper10), and my computer has been running and collecting tick, minute, daily data for almost 24/7 without turning off the computer. So I rebooted and defragged, and then started up MC again. Now the CPU usage for every thing is less than 2%, and after the initial startup stuff has finished, the tsserver CPU usage close to zero(0.1%).
Perhaps only the reboot was all that was needed, but I suspect the defrag is what really caused the huge difference. Anybody else notice such drastic performance hits caused by disk fragmentation?
A fragmented disk can cause the tsserver-database-dataserver to push the CPU usage up to 50% or more, even with no charts displayed.... just collecting the 'online' symbols.
[My system has 2GB Ram and a 3GHz Pentium4, running Windows XP; MC ver 2.1.999.999]
I had no idea this problem could be so pronounced , until I remembered it had been several days since the last time I did a de-frag (using Diskkeeper10), and my computer has been running and collecting tick, minute, daily data for almost 24/7 without turning off the computer. So I rebooted and defragged, and then started up MC again. Now the CPU usage for every thing is less than 2%, and after the initial startup stuff has finished, the tsserver CPU usage close to zero(0.1%).
Perhaps only the reboot was all that was needed, but I suspect the defrag is what really caused the huge difference. Anybody else notice such drastic performance hits caused by disk fragmentation?