Re: Why does 7.3 read/write every 5 seconds?

I think if memry used by machine is as equal or great that the physical memory. Then your station is posiblely changing between spaw and real memory. That's uses much proccessor resource. Bashar Chalabi wrote: > I used to have 7.22 Personal Edition on my 266MHz Pentium II notebook, with > NT4. I recently upgraded to 7.3 TC7, Developer Edition. Although the > performance of the database server is more or less the same (my data is > really small), the performance of the PC as a whole has dropped down. > > The Performance Monitor shows file read and write activity, every 15 > seconds. The Task Monitor shows at the same time a 50% utilisation peak, > that lasts for 2 seconds. It identifies the culprit as OnInit. > > This being an EIDE disk, the read and write more or less freezes the > machine. > > Any ideas as to why OnInit wants to read and write every 15 seconds. There > is no database activity what-so-ever. Checkpoints are happening every 300 > seconds. > > Thanks > > Bashar Chalabi > Card Tech Ltd, London