DemonData.swapFile.dat eating up all my IO
After countless hours tracking down why my computer ever few minutes slows to a crawl I've narrowed it down to an Acronis issue. This isn't the first time I've caught Acronis wasting my computer resources. Why is my backup software, a scheduled at night process, doing anything during non-scheduled time?!?!?
About every 10 mins my RAID array starts thrashing like crazy, my system slows to a crawl. Resource Manager reports 60-100MB/sec of IO (my max throughput). My keyboard output would slow so bad as to show about a character every few seconds. If I am not even on the desktop, but streaming a moving from my computer to my Amazon Fire Stick or Google Chomecast the movie starts stuttering for about 10 secs.
I only have two backup processes that run (1) overnight every night, and (2) overnight on Sundays. I am rarely on when this happens and I get success emails in the morning.
I can't figure out why Acronis is doing anything. I don't see any interface to list tasks Acronis is doing at the moment. I've done the following:
* Eliminated non-stop backup process by stopping and disabling the non-stop backup service. (I've also not enabled this feature.)
* Eliminated the sync feature by pausing syncs in UI, then disabling the service. I also don't have anything to Sync. The 1 default sync folder is empty.
So about ever 10mins, according to the Win7 Resource Manager a flood of DemonData.swapFile tmp files are created in c:\users\guru\appdata\local\temp but the PID is listed as the ntkernel process (process #4). However, SysInternals Process Explorer shows that the TruImage.exe processing is referencing these files as well. I am guessing a TruImage driver in the ntkernel is creating the actual files as directed by TruImage.exe which is then opening the files. TruImage is sustaining an average 12.5% cpu usage on a quad core i7-3820 which for a process that should be doing nothing is *a lot* of cpu.
I have rebooted a number of times. This has been going on for weeks and perhaps longer but I think is getting gradually worse.


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