RE: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

[Daniel Martin]

Yeah, certainly doesn't sound like memory is your problem.  I have no idea why it is slowing you down.

 

-Dan

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SGP
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:58 AM
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Subject: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

Hi Dan,

thanks for your comments. I don't think it's memory. I didn't reboot but turned dqsd on and off to take down my numbers. I have 512MB physical memory. Task manager shows 197364 / 884604 without dsdq running and 203144 / 884604 when it's running. Explorer takes up 16788 w/o dqsd and 20796 w/ dqsd.

Stefano

 Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The question I have is how much memory do you have?  How much is being used?  Open your Task Manager.  In the lower left hand corner of the Performance page, how much memory does it say by "Mem Usage:"?

Is that number very close to your total RAM?  Is it higher than your total RAM?  If so, you are probably experiencing slowness from using the cache often.

 

 

Now switch to your Processes tab and find explorer.exe.  How much memory is explorer.exe using? 

 

If you want to know how much DQSD is impacting you, close the DQSD search bar and reboot.  Now check the memory used by explorer.exe again, and note the difference. 

 

For me, I go from about 6 megs in explorer.exe without DQSD to 16 megs when I load DQSD.  So, DQSD impacts me about 10 megs of memory.  But, with plenty of RAM it doesn't slow my machine down.

 

If you are running tight on memory, DQSD and anything else that takes up memory will slow your system down.  You may need to get rid of DQSD or something else - or get more memory.  Of course, your problem could be something else.  But, it's worth looking at.

 

-Dan

 

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Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:37 AM
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Subject: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

Hello everyone,

I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness.

What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files.

Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?

Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?

I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.

I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me...

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