NT Disk Activity Increased Since Update

Kenn's
Tech
Notes

19990607: NT Disk Activity Increased Since Update

June/1999
Tech Note #7

You may observe a lot of disk activity when the NT servers reboot since running the Windows NT Server Prep Update. I recommend leaving your servers at least 15 minutes after reboots for all services to start up. Newer faster machines will initialize faster than older machines, but the more disk space is in use, the longer it takes. The disk activity is from the WSD1Environment service which is installed by the update. This service provides a host of useful environmental variables detailing system specifications, but in order to be current, it must poll the drives at every boot using CHKDSK. It takes a while.

As mentioned in Tech Notes 1 and 2, the Automatic Web Proxy Updater will have some changes made to it. I believe I have found a way to obtain the CHKDSK-derived information without running CHKDSK. This will be incorporated into the next version, and should solve this problem. When the updated version is available, I will post the information in the Tech Notes.

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