Windows becomes very slow and thrashes after I copy a couple of hundred files that come to about ~50 GB.
Does anyone know why? A restart fixes this.
Why is Windows Slow after copying a large amount of data?
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Virtually all the Vista problems with file transfer were eliminated via SP1 and SP2.
If the available memory is low, the paging file doing it's thing comes to mind, particularly on slower hard disks.
Optimizing paging ranges from resizing it, defragging it, moving it (to a separate non-system partition), etc. Simplest method is to increase the physical RAM in the computer.
The thrashing will subside after awhile, as Windows finds it's equilibrium, without the need for a specific restart.
If the available memory is low, the paging file doing it's thing comes to mind, particularly on slower hard disks.
Optimizing paging ranges from resizing it, defragging it, moving it (to a separate non-system partition), etc. Simplest method is to increase the physical RAM in the computer.
The thrashing will subside after awhile, as Windows finds it's equilibrium, without the need for a specific restart.
Strange.
But I must say, I don't know what you mean with "Windows trashes". Do you mean a kind of jumping, if you move the mouse around?
You can download process explorer, it shows you some more information. Look at the Interrupts in the list.
But I must say, I don't know what you mean with "Windows trashes". Do you mean a kind of jumping, if you move the mouse around?
You can download process explorer, it shows you some more information. Look at the Interrupts in the list.
Another linguistic thing... "thrashing" is what it's called when Windows makes the hard-drive work like mad, as if it were defragmenting, searching, and throwing up all at the same time.Cosmo wrote:But I must say, I don't know what you mean with "Windows trashes". Do you mean a kind of jumping, if you move the mouse around?
The slang is derived from the farming term "thresh", as in the threshing machine.