Auto-Defrag not working?-Disk usage 43%

[polaris6]

I have Dell Laptop. XP-3 and installed Smart Defrag a week ago.

 

I 'activated' Auto Defrag set resources at 70% and delay to 1 minute. The system has yet to 'auto-defrag' even though the computer has been idle for

5-6 hours at a time.

 

However, the Disk usage shows a constant 43 +/- 1%. I have no idea why this is being 'used'; noithing in the Task Manager indicates such.

 

I have another laptop, with the same OS and installed SmartDefrag at the same time. It has 'autodefraged' (lately just today); The disk usage on this laptop is 3-4% max.

 

Any suggestions/help?

[polaris6]

How does auto-defrag work?

 

Does anyone know how this facet of Smart-Defrag works?

 

Will the fact that disk usage shows 43% and the CPU literally none affect whether auto-defrag will work at all?

 

If not, I will stop looking for the culprit(s) responsible for my disk usage being high while the cpu usage is extremely low.

 

I have two laptops here, both Dells, both with XP-3 installed, both have the same options selected, yet one executes the auto-defrag correctly, the other does not. The only difference I see is that the one that does not work has this high disc usage factor when the cpu is amlost idle.

[enoskype]

Hi Polaris6,

 

Have you tried to find out what makes the Disk Usage high, in Task Manager?

GoTo:

Task Manager=>click "Processes" tab=>click "View"=>click "Select Columns"=>check the checkbox of "I/O Write Bytes" and I/O "Read Bytes"=>click "OK"=>click "I/O Write Bytes" column to bring the largest number to top=>see which processes are reading and writing.

 

Compare two laptops. There must be a process or more than one process causing high Disk usage in one of your laptops.

 

I would try with killing those couple of processes with the highest I/O Write Byte & I/O Read Byte changes (among the highest numbers) and see if SD auto defrags.

 

My guess is that SD is also monitoring Disk Usage in Automatic Mode.

I have a similar situation in one of the laptops of mine, and the reason is certain processes, but not related to SD.

 

Cheers.

[polaris6]

AutoDefrag

 

There are no process showing CPU utilization more than 1%; most, if any, are fractions of a percent...and that is 'services'.

[enoskype]

Yes, but I want you to look at the I/O Write&Read Bytes not CPU!!!

 

Please follow the above procedure in post#3.

[polaris6]

AutoDefrag

 

Here it is...

 

Laptop on which AutoDefrag works....

 

I/O Read I/O Write

 

rtvscan sys 1.3G 1.1G

avgrsx " 1.3G 129M

svchost " 95M 84M

avgsmc " 107M 72M

sys " 131M 37M

lsass " 25M 27M

explorer user 87M 21M

 

 

Laptop on which AutoDefrag DOES NOT work

 

avgrsx sys 134K 113M

explorer " 123K 21M

svchost sys 99K 18M

IE Explorer user 65K 14M

msimn " 158K 9M

ccapp " 2K 4M

[polaris6]

Sorry...all those columns were lined up in the message box before I submitted the reply.

[lewwarren]

AutoDefrag is not working

 

I cannot get AutoDefrag to work. I have SmartDefrag 1.02. Can someone please help me. Thanks in advance.

[enoskype]

Polaris,

Thanks for the values, but I/O Write Byte and I/O Read Byte not I/O Write and I/O Read .

 

Since they are dynamically changing, you should watch and see the change, and act accordingly killing the respective proceses and trying after to Auto defrag with SD.

Unfortunatelly, I can't see and decide which to kill for trying, if there is no real time movie file!!!

 

lewwarren,

Try the same method described in post #3 and/or apply for CPU if there is high CPU usage.

Did you see the Tip in this post?

 

Cheers.