Questions tagged [io]
IO or I/O is a common shorthand for referring to Input and Output
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Is there some way to make a foobar2000 playlist automatically track and update its file paths?
I have a lot of poorly named music files. They are poorly named because when they were digitized or converted, there either was no metadata at all, or it was incomplete/inconsistent, etc.
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CPU and its operations
The 3 operations performed by a CPU are:
Transfer of data between memory and I/O
Logical and Arithmetical functions
Program flow through simple decisions
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How is it possible for a process to read 300+ I/O TB?
Take a look at how much I/O this process done! KillerAnalyticsService is, apparently, program made by the manufacturer of network card installed in PC. Can somebody explain how so much bytes was read?
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Is JBOD or striping better for lots of small files?
I have a server in multi-disk configuration using LVM-on-LUKS in JBOD mode. But I notice in htop that the kernel time in CPU usage is (un)usually very high, and in iotop the jbd2/dm-5-8 and ...
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Do writes and reads contend with each other for an SSD? [closed]
I have a disk I/O intensive application where I am reading and writing a lot concurrently.
For a spinning disk, it makes sense that there is contention because the pointer has to move around a lot but ...
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pipe-lining using wget or curl on linux
I would like to know how can I download a file from the internet using wget and/or curl by separating the file into even segments and downloading the file using 8 or 16 direct links, substantially ...
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Settings for com ports to speed device I/O data transfers
I used to be able to go to com port settings for device I/O on windows and change settings such as baud rate for computer between internal PC hardware. I'm looking for instructions to do the same ...
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Stop disk activity of a process without killing the process
Is there a technique or tool that can be used to stop a running process from writing to a drive, but not kill the process.
If I have more level of control in that, like selecting which drives the ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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See exactly which files each program accesses
You can easily observe that a program is performing I/O disk operations using a process monitor. Is there an easy way to observe exactly what files are being read/written to by each process?
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Disk writes in Mac OS Mojave (10.14.6)
Good day everyone!
I am trying to dissect MacOS to remove functions I do not need such as Siri, Spotlight, Sidecar stuff, etc.
Mainly, I follow https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx and similar resources all ...
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What kind of disk operation is not read or write?
When reading a performance chart like this, what does the Other IO/Sec mean? What kind of operation is not read or write?
The info button only leads to a doc with this vague description:
NFS Write – ...
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Alert when a partition is read/written
My hard disk sometimes makes unexpected noise, indicating activity. By eyeballing iotop I believe this process is responsible:
mount.ntfs /dev/sda2 /storage -o rw,umask=007,gid=46
however the ...
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How can one see how much total reads and writes (in bytes) a given file has received cumulatively since Windows started?
I started Microsoft Windows a few hours ago. I would like to see how much total reads and writes (in bytes) a given file has received cumulatively since Windows started. Windows Results Monitor doesn'...
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How to prevent Windows 10 and/or my computer from going completely crippled while utilizing file copying over USB?
I have a monster PC running Windows 10. There are zero known hardware issues, and it's managed by me, a poweruser. There are no weird things slowing it down. It runs at expected speed normally.
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