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Extracting files and system resources

  • 07-08-2006 9:20pm
    #1
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭


    How come when I'm extracting files with winzip or winrar, the komputer slows down so much?? In the windows process manager, its says windows is using avg. 10% of the CPU and about 30MB of RAM of 1GB.

    Why? Tell me why?


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  • #2
    hopeful
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭hopeful


    georgiecasey wrote:
    How come when I'm extracting files with winzip or winrar, the komputer slows down so much?? In the windows process manager, its says windows is using avg. 10% of the CPU and about 30MB of RAM of 1GB.

    Why? Tell me why?

    Because its having to read and write from the hard drive heavily...I reckon :)


  • #3
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    As hopeful says it's because of the increased disk i/o. The simultaneous reading and writing to disk for the ZIP/RAR extraction is slowing down access for everything else so whenever something else needs to read or write it grinds to a halt.


  • #4
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    how can i improve it does anyone know?? Would the new 10,000 RPM hard drives make much difference.


  • #5
    hopeful
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭hopeful


    georgiecasey wrote:
    how can i improve it does anyone know?? Would the new 10,000 RPM hard drives make much difference.
    I was bored today so did a little testing (was REALLY bored :) )
    Time to unzip is reduced if you read from one disc and write to another...but the difference is only a few seconds over a 2gb split .rar file. Don't know if 10,000 rpm discs would make a difference but if someone wants to give me one I'll happily test it :)

    Also having 1gb ram vs 2gb made no change at all.

    How bored was I today????


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