Disk chatter

[rwhitton]

When the GBPVR recording service is running (but not actually recording anything) I find that I get continuous disk chatter (about every 2 seconds GBPVR does a number of file accesses). It is very annoying. I have included a log of the file access from the excellent "filemon" program from sysinternals. Is there anyway I can stop this from happening?

21:25:12 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:13 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712314 Length: 77
21:25:13 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:15 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712391 Length: 77
21:25:15 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:17 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712468 Length: 77
21:25:17 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:17 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:19 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712545 Length: 77
21:25:19 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:21 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712622 Length: 77
21:25:21 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:22 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:23 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712699 Length: 77
21:25:23 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:25 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712776 Length: 77
21:25:25 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:27 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712853 Length: 77
21:25:27 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:27 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:29 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3712930 Length: 77
21:25:29 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:31 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713007 Length: 77
21:25:31 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:32 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:33 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713084 Length: 77
21:25:33 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:35 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713161 Length: 77
21:25:35 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:37 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713238 Length: 77
21:25:37 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:37 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
21:25:39 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713315 Length: 77
21:25:39 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:41 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 WRITE C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log SUCCESS Offset: 3713392 Length: 77
21:25:41 GBPVRTray.exe:2216 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\RecordingStatus.bat FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
21:25:42 GBPVRRecordingS:2752 READ C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512

[sub]

Is there anyway I can stop this from happening?

Probably not.

You can stop the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log write by changing the logging level, but you'll be stuck with the other two. The check for recordingstatus.bat doesnt happen in the next release. This leaves the accessing of gbpvr.mdb, which will need to stay.

[rwhitton]

Thanks for your swift reply.

Cheers

Rob