Insane Harddrive Usage...

Hey all, was wondering, what in the world is SL writing to the harddrive after you logout? I'm getting about 4 - 5 minutes of steady HD usage after SL quits... that's crazy. I have a real fast pair of 10,000rpm harddrives in RAID 0.. i mean i can almost defrag them in the same amount of time it takes SL to stop writing
Would lowering my cache amount help any? or is it another SL fact of life?
Thx

That sounds wrong. When I log out its done..no HD writing at all. Something in your setup?

I get the same thing and my comp is brand new! I am not totally sure whats going on but it seems like it is putting a strain on my hard drive. I am working on lowering my cashe to see if that helps but doubting it cause this has been an ongoing thing here even with my old comp.

I have never had that.. Almost sounds like something else is running.. Check to to see if your virus software is doing something.. That seems really odd.. Might want to ctrl-alt-dlt and see exactlay what programs are running when it is doing that..

Knowing they're 10k rpm RAID-0 is nice but knowing what OS your running and how much memory you've got would probably be more interesting.. Also, how much memory does the machine report in-use just before you stop SL?

Sounds like you have low ram, then you will hear the hd grind awhile after, since you use virtual ram/swapfile instead.

SL nowadays 2048ram+ recommended

Ty Thili, that does make sense I currently have 1024mb dual channel memory. If it IS the swapfile tho... wouldn't lowering the Sl cache amount reduce what needs to be handled AFTER SL quits? I HAD it set to ~700mb's and it took forever to stop writing. Reduced it to ~500mb's and saw a slight improvement in the length of that. How low is too low for the cache setting?

Cache setting in SL is just to save textures and stuff for what you see in SL, shouldnt affect the hd grind since it just there to save you from downloading it again (tho its way to small 1gig is nothing -.-)

Only way to use less ram is dropping view distance, that one is the biggest impact SL can have on your ram use.

Wouldnt use raid0 tho, it stripes over both disks and it will sound alot worse then just having one,for sl raid is kinda useless doesnt do much for performance in SL anyway since its all dependant on ram & cpu , not so much on on gpu, harddrive acess time/speed doesnt really matter much.

Defragged lately? Do you have a lot of other stuff also running on the machine?

Also, do you have a fixed size pagefile or do you let Windows manage the size for you? Dynamically sized page files are evil. Pure evil.

The fact that you "only" have a gig of ram is absolutely not the problem. I run SL on a machine with 1gb of ram and barely ever swap. Two machines, actually, but one runs Linux, so that's unlikely to be a good comparison for you.

Here's a thought... whenever I close SL, it "crashes" on me. I'm not sure if that's universal, but I do know that when the crash resporter runs, it hits the disk really hard searching for system information. Maybe that's what's happening?

Youre not on Vista right ~.~

I'm not... I don't recall the OP saying they are, either. If vista requires 2gb to run SL, that's yet another reason not to "upgrade".

Unless the OP has a bunch of other stuff running and it's all getting paged back in when SL stops. Having a heavily fragged disk and letting windows control the pagefile size will make that problem even worse, too.

/me likes your crash reporter idea. Good call on that one.