Usually several times a day the reliability and performance monitor in Vista x64 shows an svchost.exe process extremely busy reading a particular file on my hard disk, and it usually keeps at it for at least five minutes, but sometimes closer to ten.
The files in question usually seem to be very large ones - just before I wrote this it was trashing around on a 4 GB video file I had just downloaded (I decided to try moving it to my external disk, the reading stopped instantly, as expected I guess).
Other times I've noticed the files have been 800 MB -1.5 GB+ game data files from eg. Fallout 3 or The Witcher.
Is there any way to find out exactly what that svchost process might be doing with those files?
My best guess would be something like the active file monitoring in Nod32, but that hardly explains why we're only talking about a select few, large files, and why it needs to take several minutes to do whatever it is that svchost process is doing to them (and it's only reading, not writing).
The files in question usually seem to be very large ones - just before I wrote this it was trashing around on a 4 GB video file I had just downloaded (I decided to try moving it to my external disk, the reading stopped instantly, as expected I guess).
Other times I've noticed the files have been 800 MB -1.5 GB+ game data files from eg. Fallout 3 or The Witcher.
Is there any way to find out exactly what that svchost process might be doing with those files?
My best guess would be something like the active file monitoring in Nod32, but that hardly explains why we're only talking about a select few, large files, and why it needs to take several minutes to do whatever it is that svchost process is doing to them (and it's only reading, not writing).
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Core 2 Quad Q9400
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Zotac Geforce GTX 260
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 24" HP LP2475w
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
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