100% Disk Activity : Svchost - NTFS Volume Log File


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Could anybody help he out to find the issue here please.

 

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Disk Activity : 100 % for hours

From Perfmon:
Highest Disk Activity by svchost.exe on NTFS Volume Log file 
Im guessing its indexing & Stopped Windows search service, but No immediate change in Disk Activity.


Any thoughts whats happening here or a possible fix please?

Let's start by checking the Health of that 1TB 5400 RPM Drive

 

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

 

Download the Portable Zip, and then unzip it and run it. 

 

Let us know what the "Health Status is" ... If it says caution, scroll down and tell us which ones have yellow circles.

Type: HDD

Health Status is Good.

 

I started stopping services from task manager, under svchost one by one to to find if i could find the offending service.

As expected on stopping one of the services the disk usage came back to normal, unfortunately in the joy i missed the service name.. 

Some windows service was causing non stop writes..

 

Disk activity has been 100% for a few days, thought indexing was going on and ignored it..

Pretty sure windows used up a considerable amount of  the HDD rewrites , reducing HDD life..

 

Issue solved. Waiting for it to reoccur to find the service name.

 

Thanks @Eric & @+warwagon

  On 18/03/2017 at 13:54, Eric said:

Anything in the event log? What kind of drive is it, SSD or standard?

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Not sure how to do an Event log analysis..

  On 18/03/2017 at 16:16, rezurect said:

Type: HDD

Health Status is Good.

 

I started stopping services from task manager, under svchost one by one to to find if i could find the offending service.

As expected on stopping one of the services the disk usage came back to normal, unfortunately in the joy i missed the service name.. 

Some windows service was causing non stop writes..

 

Disk activity has been 100% for a few days, thought indexing was going on and ignored it..

Pretty sure windows used up a considerable amount of  the HDD rewrites , reducing HDD life..

 

Issue solved. Waiting for it to reoccur to find the service name.

 

Thanks @Eric & @+warwagon

Not sure how to do an Event log analysis..

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Judging by the drive model number it's a regular spinning hard drive and not an SSD, so it didn't really use up any HDD rewrites as that's not an issue with hard drives as it is with an SSD.

 

So which service did you kill which stopped it? Typically the "Windows update service" causes the highest CPU usage with Svchost

 

If it turns out to be the case you may want to clear the c:\windows\softwaredistribution folder out. But you'll have to stop the windows update service first.

  On 18/03/2017 at 16:21, warwagon said:

Judging by the drive model number it's a regular spinning hard drive and not an SSD, so it didn't really use up any HDD rewrites as that's not an issue with hard drives as it is with an SSD.

 

So which service did you kill which stopped it? Typically the "Windows update service" causes the highest CPU usage with SVChost.

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Kind of missed the service name in joy of seeing Disk activity drop to normal..

CPU usage was normal all the while

 

Will post back if it occurs again, and i get the service name

  On 18/03/2017 at 14:29, warwagon said:

Let's start by checking the Health of that 1TB 5400 RPM Drive

 

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

 

Download the Portable Zip, and then unzip it and run it. 

 

Let us know what the "Health Status is" ... If it says caution, scroll down and tell us which ones have yellow circles.

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UNrelated:

 

I tried Crystal mark on my External Seagate HDD

Status : Caution

 

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Drive failure coming up?

  On 18/03/2017 at 16:29, rezurect said:

UNrelated:

 

I tried Crystal mark on my External Seagate HDD

Status : Caution

 

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That means that there is currently one or more bad sectors on that drive.

I had this happening with Windows Defender when downloading a lot of large files.  It would CONSTANTLY be scanning those files.  Killed a hard drive before I took time to figure it out.  It was on a media server that I'm not on a lot.  I could disable Defender, but it would be same issue when it started back on after restart, so I permanently disabled it.

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