Bazzu85 0 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Hi, By default Drivepool.Service.exe has normal priority under windows going into balancing - File placement it takes forever to load the folders distribution on disks when clicking on it.. Manually increasing the process priority boost the disk read a lot.. Are there any way to assign always a "Above normal" priority? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 In the UI, there is a ">>" icon that appears when balancing/duplication occurs, that boosts the priority. This is a temporary setting, though. Additionally, there are a couple of advanced settings that can also help. "FileBalance_BackgroundIO" and "FileDuplication_BackgroundIO". These can be set via: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings#Settings.json Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Bazzu85 0 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 55 minutes ago, Christopher (Drashna) said: In the UI, there is a ">>" icon that appears when balancing/duplication occurs, that boosts the priority. This is a temporary setting, though. Additionally, there are a couple of advanced settings that can also help. "FileBalance_BackgroundIO" and "FileDuplication_BackgroundIO". These can be set via: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings#Settings.json I know the ">>" icon.. talking about the settings.json.. I cant' find the file.. I have this folder: C:\Program Files\StableBit\DrivePool , no json in it.. looking at the wiki page talk about a sort of Drivepool v2, how can I check wich version I'm using? founded the json: both object you talking about are true. what about: DrivePool_BackgroundTasksPriority (Default: "-2")- The CPU thread priority that should be used for background tasks such as calculating the balancing ratio. A value from -15 to 15 (inclusive). Relating to an above normal windows service priority. Can I play with this? thx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Yeah, that can help too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Bazzu85 0 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 13 minutes ago, Christopher (Drashna) said: Yeah, that can help too Can you explain the value? From - 15 to +15 in normal words? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Bazzu85 0 Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 4/25/2020 at 12:59 AM, Bazzu85 said: Can you explain the value? From - 15 to +15 in normal words? upp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Shane 45 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 If I had to guess, it might relate to the Windows API that handles thread priority adjustment: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/scheduling-priorities So I would assume that -15 to +15 covers the availability priorities below/above a "normal" of 16 for the task (since "0" is exclusive to a special system thread). In any case I'd be very careful about increasing it, Windows doesn't always handle "overclocking" processes well and you might want to be ready to deal with a non-responsive OS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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By default Drivepool.Service.exe has normal priority under windows
going into balancing - File placement it takes forever to load the folders distribution on disks when clicking on it..
Manually increasing the process priority boost the disk read a lot..
Are there any way to assign always a "Above normal" priority?
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