Just as a follow-up, something that I should probably have mentioned in my
first post: It doesn't happen all the time.
Yesterday I burned a DVD and, as I've come to expect, couldn't use my system
a few minutes into it as the physical memory available dropped down to
nothing. This morning, I burned another (same program and everything), and
everything was fine--with available physical memory remaining steady
throughout at around 660MB.
"Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
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> XP Pro x64 SP2 still flies right along for me.
>
> "Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> For the past couple of months, my XP x64 system (Athlon X2 4800 w/2GB
>> RAM) has been getting awfully slow when processing large files. For
>> example, burning multi-GB files (I alternate between Nero and ImgBurn),
>> copying large files across my LAN, extracting files with WinRAR or
>> running a repair job with QuickPar. The 'Available Physical Memory'
>> figure under the Performance tab in Task Manager can drop to 20MB or so
>> (20,000--the value is expressed in KB), and as soon as these operations
>> stop, it'll jump right back up to maybe 1.2GB, where it more typically
>> hovers in day-to-day operations. The pagefile usage graph typically
>> stays at around maybe 1.2-1.6GB (even when it gets bogged down like I've
>> described), depending on what I'm doing.
>>
>> It's only when I do these operations with large files that the available
>> physical memory figure drops down to nothing and then the hard drive
>> starts going nuts. I've seen it take upwards of 12-15 minutes (hard
>> drive light stays on solid) to extracting a 4GB RAR file--something that
>> used to barely take 2-3 minutes on that same machine, if that much.
>>
>> The hardware configuration hasn't changed in a *very* long time. It's
>> difficult for me to blame the hardware, as this system used to fly and I
>> used to be able to multitask (doing these same tasks in the background
>> while I'm doing something else) without any problem. Nowadays when I
>> burn a DVD or extract a large RAR file, my system's completely
>> unusable--a problem I haven't seen on a system since the early Pentium
>> days...
>>
>> The pagefile and OS are on separate physical SATA drives, and even though
>> there's plenty of well known techniques to help alleviate bottlenecks,
>> this is the same configuration I've been using since long before this
>> particular problem has started appearing, so again, it's not like all of
>> a sudden my system is poorly configured.
>>
>> I'm beginning to wonder if MS has changed the way file caching works in
>> some relatively recent hotfix. Am I the only one seeing this issue
>> lately on XP x64?
>>
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