[Win 8.1] Disk usage 100%

Submitted by suedebluesshoes on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 15:30
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Opening SoulSeek causes my HD's disk usage to ramp up to 100%. The computer virtually locks up. After managing to close the program, it takes a few minutes before disk usage finally drops down from 100%. I'm using the 12-19 build.

Restarting my computer hasn't helped. Reinstalling the program didn't help either.

Any idea what's going on?

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Submitted by MELERIX on Mon, 01/12/2015 - 08:32.

but are you sure that disk usage is caused by Soulseek ?

check system monitor.

Submitted by suedebluesshoes on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 11:02.

The odd thing is, the system monitor shows 99% disk usage without anything in particular apparently taking up that much. It lasts for 5-10 minutes after opening Soulseek (and persists even after it is closed), and then it goes away.

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Submitted by tommynajo on Mon, 02/09/2015 - 05:08.

Having the same problem here. It's impossible to open soulseek, it keeps freezing, disc goes to 100%, and if i let it stay open too much my system freezes too and i have to restart. Already confirmed that yeah, it's soulseek's doing and nothing else. This didn't happened before, and i delayed updates for as long as i could, maybe something in a new version is acting up?

Submitted by microwave on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 15:52.

Soulseek rescans your shared folders in the background when it starts up. Is it possible something has been added to the folders recently that is causing a problem? Any symlinks, hard links, directory junctions that might be causing a loop? You might try renaming the shared folders one at a time to get them out of the way and narrow down the possibilities.