Polking rate - can it be set?

[ChrisGreaves]

IN the INI files topic I see:-

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poll_opened_files_rate
Set to the rate in milliseconds to gather all opened file handles on the system.
Default: poll_opened_files_rate=1000

Which rate of 1,000 milliseconds seems to match I/O Disk Read activity in my Win7 Task manager. The disk-drive light flashes about once a second.
Is this the setting I should change, perhaps to 10,000 milli-seconds if I wanted to see the impact of Everything on this old DELL laptop?
Thanks, Chris

[void]

poll_opened_files_rate only applies to the is-open: and opened-by: search functions and the opened by column.

poll_opened_files_rate does nothing if you are not using these searches function or showing the opened by column.



monitor_notify_results_changed_delay will delay processing file changes, which might help..
Please try setting this to: 10000

Everything shouldn't really be going to disk.
What columns are you showing?
Are you showing thumbnails or detailed view?

[ChrisGreaves]

Everything shouldn't really be going to disk. What columns are you showing? Are you showing thumbnails or detailed view?

Thanks for this response Void; I'll set the interval to ten seconds tomorrow. I am trying to track down what/who is thrashing my hard drive on this 10+ year old DELL Win7. My money is on Firefox, but in Task Manager I had noticed that Everything increased the "I/O Disk Reads" about once a second, which prompted me to ask ...

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Here is my default screen when I first open Everything.
I spend most of my life in Word2003 DOCuments.
I spend most of my life in Detail view.

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Name
Path
Date Modified
Word Count
Size.

I do not know why so many old files report zero for word-count; STANNES1.DOC reports 947 words from Word2003 File, Properties, Statistics.

Cheers, Chris

[void]

Everything shouldn't be going to disk.

Please check the resource monitor to see which files Everything is reading.
From the Start menu, search for resource monitor
Click Resource Monitor.
Click the Disk tab.
Check the Everything process.
Could you please send a screenshot of the disk to support@voidtools.com

[ChrisGreaves]

Could you please send a screenshot of the disk to support@voidtools.com

Void, the item "Everything.exe" is a bit of a moving target in these screens.
From what I can see the Bit Rate is reducing, so it may well be that when I view resource Monitor I see the Bit rate CHANGING but had not noticed that it was, of course, trending towards zero over time.
Cheers, Chris