Non-stop backup blocking IO
Has anybody else noticed that Non-stop backup blocks IO in the first few minutes after a boot?
When I start windows, when Non-stop backup starts up my IO on my computer goes through the floor, and bottlenecks at 4MB/s. Making the computer *sloooow* while NSB does whatever it is it's doing.
If I turn of NSB I get 90MB/s and my computer works as you would expect... fast.
Anybody else have a similar problem? What's so hard about the application working transparently in the background? Without effecting the user?
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Yeah, annoyingly Windows 7 (and Vista) comes with IO priorities, where you can set the IO priority to 'low' if you use an application like Process Explorer, however even if I do this it's still really slow. I suspect that NSB actually blocks, in the true sense of the word, any attempt by applications to access the disk until it's done, which is why while NSB is doing it's thing IO is only 5MB/s and not 90MB/s.
Might I also suggest that ATIH and NSB use the USN Journal instead of hitting the entire HDD? I realise most suggestions on this forum go to /dev/null/ but I don't want to open a pay per incident to file a bug.
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