100% Disk Usage
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@Ayespy so I did try the refresh profile method, and it has given me way better results. Specifically, Disk usage has looks like something that would be normal to see, a bit highish at startup but goes back to around 1%ish.
It possibly might have been the extension, it was an ad-blocker, that I think was taken down. I'm gonna try adding back all the things I had except the extension and see how it does.
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@darkstar9386 you're in the middle if a sync aren't you? The sync USB or something got corrupt so it's trying to do an initial get again.
Open up vivaldi://sync and you can investigate what's going on in there. Look at what is hitting your hard drive... there's only 1 entry from the vivaldi.exe process, and a bunch from System.
@Ayespy said in 100% Disk Usage:
This would not be the first time that software aimed at system security singled out Vivaldi (because it's new, unfamiliar, "not trusted") and interfered with it.
But, I don't see any security software being active in the list. The issue is the hard drive has high activity. Looking at the resource monitor we see that Vivaldi's sync related files are being written, mostly by the System process, at least in the part of the list we can see. This fits with what I was saying based just on the symptoms, low data throughput but high disk activity measurement suggests lots of little files being written. That's exactly what we see in the resource monitor.
This keeps happening every time @darkstar9386 launches Vivaldi because he never lets it finish. The next time he starts up Vivaldi it restarts what I'm guessing is an initial get from the server.
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Ah dang, you refreshed your profile. Ok, nuclear option, but it clearly demonstrates that it was an issue with your profile. Could be that extension you mention was in a funky state, but looking at the resource monitor we can see exactly which files are being touched. I'm not at my desk right now so I can't look to see what the guid that vivaldi.exe was writing to is exactly. But we definitely see a bunch of writes happening that occur during a sync.
I know this specific pain, though it happens to me on Android not my workstation. Somehow my profile gets into some weird state where there's a sync conflict it cannot resolve. Eventually, after failing to successfully complete a sync, something else happens and it decides it's time to download all 850,000+ records from the server. That takes many hours to complete and typically fails several times, thus restarting each time. At some point s few days later, often seth me babysitting it, the "initial get" completes and no data is lost. I can't just blow away my local profile because that would result in data loss, I need it to upload several hundred to a few thousand bookmarks that have been created during the period when it wasn't able to sync successfully.
Anyways, if you see those files being written when your disk is reporting 100%, which BTW only means that there was disk activity, not that the disk is maxed our for the measurement time frame. Then open up that sync internals page and look at the events and the log, and you should be able to see what's going on. Watching those you can see if it fails, or completes. When it finally finishes your drive should return back to normal.
One last thing, since you didn't reply to it, I guess there weren't really any other symptoms of a problem? No performance issues? Your disk still had plenty if bandwidth available, and other performance measurements were fine. The 100% just means that for whatever the rolling average timeframe is, there wasn't ever any idle time. As I mentioned, this is different than the drive being maxed out and unable to handle more data.
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This is why we need to always remember the ABCDEs - Always Be Closing Defective Extensions :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
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@Pathduck True, though I still think sync was the most likely culprit. That, and Cortana and the registry are active, that's pretty much all we can see that is touching the disc. An underlying root cause could possibly be a failing disc. There is essentially no data throughput, yet also no idle time on the drive. That can be indicative of lots of tiny files, or also a drive that is starting to fail as one write after another has to be retried.
But you can see the sync db is being written, by System, as well as lots of locations that could be synced. If the OP wishes top try to dig into what happened, there's always the log filled to check.
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@Pathduck The problem is not anything you are running but I do suggest changing Chrome's options to not run any background programs after closing. My Firefox Developer's Edition uses way more RAM than you show with Chrome with no problems (I have 6GB).
Make sure you have latest version (1909) of Win 10.. One of Micro$oft's updates made Task Manager always show 100% even though other specs were well within system's capabilities. Believe the problem was with one of Window's programs running which didn't show amount of usage.
- Might try turning off Windows Search. Type and run the command net.exe stop “Windows search” in Command Prompt. Doing this will prevent Windows Search from running until Windows is restarted.
- Might try using CheckDisk utility program.
- Disble the Startup programs at boot temprarily.
- Disable certain Windows programs (first click Start, then type services and click Enter):
A) In the Services window, look for the service called Superfetch. Right-click on that item and click Stop. Don’t exit out of this window.
Open Task Manager to see if your usage dropped. If not, right-click on Superfetch again and click Start to re-enable it.
C) Next, see if another service is causing the problem. Repeat the steps above with two more services, including Background Intelligent Transfer Service and Windows Search, checking to see if disk usage drops after each attempt.
D) If any of these steps stopped your disk usage problem, then you’ll want to right-click the service that caused disk usage to drop, then click Properties > Startup type > Disabled. This prevents the service from starting up and should cure your disk usage problem permanently.- If nothing helps, try "100% Disk Usage in Windows 10 Fixed With 14 Tricks" at https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-tips-fix-100-disk-usage-improve-windows-performance/
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Windows 10 is a good OS, but certainly before it really is, it is convenient to disable a lot of unnecessary services.
It can be done by hand, but not in all services is the function that they have very clear and if one is not very expert in the subject, one runs the risk of turning the PC into a paperweight.
It is therefore recommended for newbies to use for this purpose some utility that allows to disable the necessary services with security, for example https://www.sordum.org/8637/easy-service-optimizer-v1-2/ -
When something like this happens to me, I shut down the PC and open it after sometime.
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@TheShadow4Vivaldi said in 100% Disk Usage:
Repeat the steps above with two more services, including Background Intelligent Transfer Service
I would not disable BITS. Set it to manual instead of disabled if you feel the need to make any changes. Then it should start when you manually invoke Windows Updates, which depends on BITS to download the packages. If it is not running, the WU will not be able to download updates in the background using idle bandwidth
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@BoneTone Most of the changes are not to be done permanently. Just to see if a service is causing the problem. Troubleshooting suggestions are just that, suggestions until problem is solved. I mentioned that Micr$oft issued an update at one time which they said was causing the problem. They did take care of it eventually but other updates could cause problems as you well know.
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@TheShadow4Vivaldi said in 100% Disk Usage:
Most of the changes are not to be done permanently. Troubleshooting suggestions are just that, suggestions until problem is solved.
Except for the change I mentioned, it comes after the troubleshooting and is the proposed fix. You specifically called out that change as a permanent solution.
@TheShadow4Vivaldi said in 100% Disk Usage:
If any of these steps stopped your disk usage problem, then you’ll want to right-click the service that caused disk usage to drop, then click Properties > Startup type > Disabled. This prevents the service from starting up and should cure your disk usage problem permanently.
That's precisely why I posted what I posted. If you intended for the OP to then do something else to find the root cause and enable the service again, that was not included in your post.
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@rdemuth
I feel you on this, as I am dealing with it too (which is why I am reading this year old thread) and I can very easily confirm that this is not a antivirus issue as I am running a 3 day old clean install of win 10 + full format of all disk drives + I have not installed any antivirus.Even before that clean wipe, I was seeing massive spikes to 100% disk use with vivaldi ... I have been using this browser since I read about it on Ars Technica, in 2015, and this just started in the last two weeks. I would be concerned that this was due to using the Calendar and Mail beta functions, but I only turned those on after the clean install of win 10.
I am going to try to procedurally disable extensions I have and see if that helps.
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@xijit Try to Hibernate all tabs when Vivaldi grinding your harddisk to 100% non stop.
Some website these days are abusing background traffic non stop, & when you have multiple of 'em opened they will cause Vivaldi to go nuts. Usually youtube is the worst culprit, but then this might be cause by Vivaldi's unknown bug...
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Hi,
It's mostly related to the Mail/Calendar/RSS.
Try disabling them for a while.Also,
If you tested the "Cache" Flag, it was disabled on the latest V version 4.3 since Chrome removed it.
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