I use Foldershare only lightly, to share photos with family, etc. Most of
the time it's doing nothing but idling in the background. I looked at
Windows Task Manager this morning and noticed these statistics for
foldershare.exe:



I/O Reads: 304 and steady I/O Read Bytes: 882,669 and steady
I/O Writes: 20 and steady I/O Write Bytes: 6,980 and steady
I/O Other: 39,622 and climbing I/O Other Bytes: 1,004,589 and climbing

This was after 10 minutes of Windows uptime. No files were being shared at
the time.

Does anybody else see this continuous growth in 'I/O Other' or know what
might be going on?

Seems excessive and perhaps a waste of resources.

These IO reads are caused by FolderShare rescanning your directories for
changes that were made while FolderShare was offline.

Hope this helps,
Anton


"JonInIndy" <JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C539B9CE-6639-4EA6-B704-D57852A78A77@xxxxxx

> I use Foldershare only lightly, to share photos with family, etc. Most of
> the time it's doing nothing but idling in the background. I looked at
> Windows Task Manager this morning and noticed these statistics for
> foldershare.exe:
>
> I/O Reads: 304 and steady I/O Read Bytes: 882,669 and steady
> I/O Writes: 20 and steady I/O Write Bytes: 6,980 and steady
> I/O Other: 39,622 and climbing I/O Other Bytes: 1,004,589 and
> climbing
>
> This was after 10 minutes of Windows uptime. No files were being shared
> at
> the time.
>
> Does anybody else see this continuous growth in 'I/O Other' or know what
> might be going on?
>
> Seems excessive and perhaps a waste of resources.

I'm not sure I'm believing your answer.

This morning my PC has been on for 2 1/2 hours. I looked at Task Manager
and it shows FOLDERSHARE.EXE has performed over 465,000 "other I/Os" (and
steadily climbing) totalling over 11,000,000 bytes (and climbing). I haven't
made any changes to my shared files in 2 days and Foldershare shows no
current activity going on.

Foldershare is a great product, but can you please investigate this
seemingly unwarranted resource consumption?

Thank you.

Jon

"Anton Katz [MSFT]" wrote:

> These IO reads are caused by FolderShare rescanning your directories for
> changes that were made while FolderShare was offline.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Anton
>
>
> "JonInIndy" <JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C539B9CE-6639-4EA6-B704-D57852A78A77@xxxxxx

> > I use Foldershare only lightly, to share photos with family, etc. Most of
> > the time it's doing nothing but idling in the background. I looked at
> > Windows Task Manager this morning and noticed these statistics for
> > foldershare.exe:
> >
> > I/O Reads: 304 and steady I/O Read Bytes: 882,669 and steady
> > I/O Writes: 20 and steady I/O Write Bytes: 6,980 and steady
> > I/O Other: 39,622 and climbing I/O Other Bytes: 1,004,589 and
> > climbing
> >
> > This was after 10 minutes of Windows uptime. No files were being shared
> > at
> > the time.
> >
> > Does anybody else see this continuous growth in 'I/O Other' or know what
> > might be going on?
> >
> > Seems excessive and perhaps a waste of resources.

>

Maybe the Vista Task Manager should stop reporting I/O activity if that
information is alarming people. The XP Task Manager does not worry me
about such irrelevant happenings going on under the hood.

Tony

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:46:01 -0800, JonInIndy
<JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure I'm believing your answer.
>
> This morning my PC has been on for 2 1/2 hours. I looked at Task Manager
> and it shows FOLDERSHARE.EXE has performed over 465,000 "other I/Os" (and
> steadily climbing) totalling over 11,000,000 bytes (and climbing). I haven't
> made any changes to my shared files in 2 days and Foldershare shows no
> current activity going on.
>
> Foldershare is a great product, but can you please investigate this
> seemingly unwarranted resource consumption?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jon
>
> "Anton Katz [MSFT]" wrote:
>

>> These IO reads are caused by FolderShare rescanning your directories for
>> changes that were made while FolderShare was offline.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Anton
>>
>>
>> "JonInIndy" <JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C539B9CE-6639-4EA6-B704-D57852A78A77@xxxxxx

>>> I use Foldershare only lightly, to share photos with family, etc. Most of
>>> the time it's doing nothing but idling in the background. I looked at
>>> Windows Task Manager this morning and noticed these statistics for
>>> foldershare.exe:
>>>
>>> I/O Reads: 304 and steady I/O Read Bytes: 882,669 and steady
>>> I/O Writes: 20 and steady I/O Write Bytes: 6,980 and steady
>>> I/O Other: 39,622 and climbing I/O Other Bytes: 1,004,589 and
>>> climbing
>>>
>>> This was after 10 minutes of Windows uptime. No files were being shared
>>> at
>>> the time.
>>>
>>> Does anybody else see this continuous growth in 'I/O Other' or know what
>>> might be going on?
>>>
>>> Seems excessive and perhaps a waste of resources.

>>

More than willing to investigate.
Could you please email me at katz.anton@xxxxxx the number of shared
libraries you have?

Thank you,

--
Anton Katz
Program Manager - Windows Live FolderShare




"JonInIndy" <JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AC30C4CF-CBBB-4E0E-A950-B3FAC88F739A@xxxxxx

> I'm not sure I'm believing your answer.
>
> This morning my PC has been on for 2 1/2 hours. I looked at Task Manager
> and it shows FOLDERSHARE.EXE has performed over 465,000 "other I/Os" (and
> steadily climbing) totalling over 11,000,000 bytes (and climbing). I
> haven't
> made any changes to my shared files in 2 days and Foldershare shows no
> current activity going on.
>
> Foldershare is a great product, but can you please investigate this
> seemingly unwarranted resource consumption?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jon
>
> "Anton Katz [MSFT]" wrote:
>

>> These IO reads are caused by FolderShare rescanning your directories for
>> changes that were made while FolderShare was offline.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Anton
>>
>>
>> "JonInIndy" <JonInIndy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C539B9CE-6639-4EA6-B704-D57852A78A77@xxxxxx

>> > I use Foldershare only lightly, to share photos with family, etc. Most
>> > of
>> > the time it's doing nothing but idling in the background. I looked at
>> > Windows Task Manager this morning and noticed these statistics for
>> > foldershare.exe:
>> >
>> > I/O Reads: 304 and steady I/O Read Bytes: 882,669 and steady
>> > I/O Writes: 20 and steady I/O Write Bytes: 6,980 and steady
>> > I/O Other: 39,622 and climbing I/O Other Bytes: 1,004,589 and
>> > climbing
>> >
>> > This was after 10 minutes of Windows uptime. No files were being
>> > shared
>> > at
>> > the time.
>> >
>> > Does anybody else see this continuous growth in 'I/O Other' or know
>> > what
>> > might be going on?
>> >
>> > Seems excessive and perhaps a waste of resources.

>>