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Question

33% Disk Freeze

Feb 22, 2015 12:37AM PST

This has been going on for awhile and I've finally decided to ask about it. Randomly (I can be playing a game, doing nothing, or just browsing the web) my computer will just start to run extremely slow and I can do almost nothing. I've started leaving my task manager open in my other window to see if anything was odd. This is what I found. http://puu.sh/g7WUS/b3f1d1d07a.png
Every time my computer freezes like this its when the disk goes up to 33%. After a minute or two the disk will go back down to 0 and my computer will run perfectly fine. This only happens when the disk drive goes up. I've had my CPU and Memory go above 90% and my computer ran just fine. Also the percent never goes above 33 which is the oddest thing to me. Everything else seems to run perfectly fine and like I said this has been happening for awhile and it does not seem to have any other problems. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Give us more details.
Feb 22, 2015 12:44AM PST

Age, make, OS etc.
Dafydd.

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Answer
It sounds like a memory shortage & paging problem
Feb 22, 2015 1:02AM PST

However to really help you, we need to know the things Dafydd asks for. Be sure to say how much RAM you have, what your paging settings are, and how much free space you have on your hard drive.

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Re: 33%
Feb 22, 2015 4:53AM PST

It's a pity that your screen print doesn't show the full name of the services in that host, nor the full list of all programs that do disk-IO. I don't think that 1.5 MB a second does make for 33%.

So I'd go into Resource Monitor and have a better look.

Kees