HDD load causes severe lags

XimikS2012-10-27 22:13:18

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XimikS, 2012-10-27 22:13:18

Began to notice strong slowdowns when the HDD is loaded.
For the experiment, Steam launched the download of the game. Using a PC is very difficult.
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The disks are not fragmented:
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Probable reason: I partitioned the D drive into logical ones in order to put ubuntu, removed the logical and merged the resulting logical empty disk together with the Windows back Acronis.
Windows 8 x86
What to do?

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9 answer(s)

MT, 2012-10-28
@MTonly

Pay attention to SSD.

Roman Pavlov, 2012-10-27
@RomanPavlov

I have the same symptoms when updating/downloading on Steam. Valve seems to have fixed this in one of the client patches , but strong brakes are still present to this day. Here are some similar threads on the Valve forums.
Since the HDD is the bottleneck in the performance of today's computers, it is understandable that if Steam loads it at 100%, then other applications slow down.
What to do? Let Steam do its thing when the PC is idle.

sdevalex, 2012-10-27
@sdevalex

Try setting the RubyMine priority to low in the task manager. All Java IDEs cause me to freeze, the music twitches, only changing the priority helps.

Sergey Kamenev, 2012-10-27
@inetstar

Reminds me of an old joke (15 years old):
Bill Gates is approached by his son and asks:
- Is the last Windows multitasking?
“Wait, son, now I’ll format the floppy and show you.
But seriously, I recommend enabling write-back cache everywhere (screw, raid cache, operating system). If there is, of course, UPS)))

AlexanderG, 2012-10-28
@AlexanderG

It's strange to mention this in 2012, but maybe interrupts are the problem? The disks hang on the same interrupt with something else, for example, in my case, with the video card, and because of this the problem.

Akson87, 2012-10-28
@Akson87

Check that the disk works in DMA mode, I had this once on my parents' computer, for some reason the disk started working (I don't know why) in PIO and everything was very very slow.

LeeMiller, 2012-10-28
@LeeMiller

I had the same problem, I had a Seagate either 10 or 12 series, which served me faithfully for 5 years. But at some point things started to get worse.
Windows began to work more slowly, 2-3 applications that worked with disks lag terribly, the cache of graphic editors with a groan fulfilled itself. I already understood that Screw just dies, does not crash like everyone else, but simply began to lag and process requests for a long time. In my case, the same Origin - long game launches, checking game caches, cache of graphic and 3D editors, everything began to work slowly. As a result, I changed myself a new hard drive, but I didn’t risk switching to an SSD yet

Sergey, 2012-10-28
@bondbig

I observe exactly the same symptoms after switching from Win7 to 8 on a Lenovo T520 laptop. Although not quite the same, if you start downloading a large file over the network, the whole RAM is eaten up quite quickly (before our eyes) (it reaches 95%), then swapping starts and the disk is loaded at 100%, causing a complete collapse, everything is incredibly stupid, the mouse does not move.
I assume there is a bug in the network driver, or even in the tcp/ip stack, because the symptoms are the same for Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Or maybe in the SATA / IDE controller driver.

Vampiro, 2012-10-28
@Vampiro

It is strange that the question about the HDD is accompanied by anything but a piece of SMART. Maybe it really fell out in PIO due to errors in the network controller and you need to remove-insert / change the cord.