Sign in
Microsoft.com
 
Microsoft
 
 
 

locked
New EX490 - with constant HDD activity RRS feed

 > 

  • Question

  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote

    I purchased a HP EX490 Mediasmart server last week.  Still running the single HDD, have dumped some media on the server and it seems to be working ok.


    But it seems to have constant drive usage, all day and all night.  Not heavy, just accessing, every couple of seconds with a variety of programs running, but not really taking CPU activity (seems to be searchindexer, presentationhost, qsm, wmiprsve, mqscv) .

    Logging in through RDP it tells me logging is complete.

    Is this normal to have constant drive access?   I have stopped twonky and itunes to see if that was the culprit, but not cigar.  Or is there software that I can use to track what is doing it?

     

    thanks in advnce

    Sunday, July 4, 2010 4:16 AM

All replies

  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote

    Looking at the task manager, one piece of software mqsvc.exe appears to be making constant i/o - reads at least - from the system, with very little CPU activity, that appears to happen with each read... currently its sitting at 36million reads, and 39billion bytes read.  Its not the only one with accesses happening.

     

    is message queuing an important component on WHS?

    Sunday, July 4, 2010 4:32 AM
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote
    Looking at the task manager, one piece of software mqsvc.exe appears to be making constant i/o - reads at least - from the system, with very little CPU activity, that appears to happen with each read... currently its sitting at 36million reads, and 39billion bytes read.  Its not the only one with accesses happening.

    is message queuing an important component on WHS?

    That service isn't running on mine at all (but I built my own server using a System Builder license).
    Sunday, July 4, 2010 4:47 AM
    Moderator
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote

    Hmmm...

    I have no clue.  Looking at disk manager it has activity of 100KB/s ( up to 2MB/s for some reason)... the only access is my computer running logged into it... no media streaming or anything like that (which doesnt peakl that high, running a video to my laptop only brings it to 500KB/s

     

    any advice on hunting down the process that is causing the drive usage?

    Sunday, July 4, 2010 6:36 AM
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote

    Could be some HP service or HP application running in the background. I've never seen a EX490 so I do not know....

    Personally I would use Windows Sysinternals Process Monitor v2.91 (and maybe Process Explorer v12.04) tools to find out what files are beeing accessed. Not sure if this is an option for you as using these kinds of tools you'll need some rather technical background knowledge of the Windows OS.

    - Theo.

    No home server like Home Server
    Monday, July 5, 2010 8:13 PM
    Moderator