Daniel it is probably worth you spending time un-installing all the applications that you don't use. Not just to stop any errors you may have picked up from the RAID resize.
It is surprising how many applications install all those little helper things in odd places like the system tray to make it 0.25 seconds quicker to start up. Or have additional utilities like iTunes that has the device synchroniser to sync up the iPod which you don't have. All of which need time to start up and shut down and their potential to cause instability. Not to mention how the registry gets bloated. All of which shouldn't have much effect on performance unless you are overloading available real memory. It would be worth looking at the process list when SC is running slow to see if anything else is hogging the CPU or memory. One thing that just occurred to me that perhaps others with more knowledge can comment on. You get thrashing on startup if SC isn't closed down before you shut down the PC. I'd hazard a guess at that being the database doing a consistency check (I don't know mySQL.) on startup because it has found it to be in an inconsistant state. That sort of thing I'd expect if it was unexpectedly terminated or if data wasn't flushed before shutdown. Way back when the issue for external RAID arrays was always ensuring write cache data was flushed to all relevant array disks before shutting down the array, if it wasn't you got RAID resyncs on startup as the array checked itself for consistency and then DB consistency checks if the RAID didn't adjust properly. Since Windows asks apps to close and doesn't force terminate them they should all shut down cleanly and it should also be aware to flush all the disc caches. So it shouldn't be a problem. But...something is. -- Zaragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44457 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
