Which program is causing abnormal disc activity?



John Latter
07-10-2005, 03:06 AM
I don't know much about computers but I seem to be having a lot of
disc activity since changing my hard drive and reinstalling windows
xp.

I've been to windows task manager & have enabled I/O Read Bytes & I/O
Write bytes.

When I'm doing nothing the following 3 programs are constantly
changing. I've been online for about 3 hours now & these are the
approximate figures:

ashserve.exe (Avast antivirus):

read: 4,700,000,000 write: 3,700,000

svhost.exe:

read: 705,000,000 write: 718,000,000

lsass.exe:

read: 1,010,000 write: 540,000

Today is the 1st time my firewall reporeted that lsass requested
internet access though this disc activity has been noticable since
doing the reinstall.

Any help or advice would be appreciated!


Which program is causing abnormal disc activity?