Disk churning

mikeyww User Posts: 29 Points: 21 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 21 December 2007	#1 0 25 June 2011 17:46:43 I installed The Bat! version 5.0.14 on Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3. When the program is running, the disk is churning continuously. I have no idea what it could be doing. It is unusable.

bigg one

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27 June 2011 00:08:14

get Process Monitor and see what's doing that. Could be something else. Or if it is theBat, you'll see what it tries to do.
Or just install some previous version. Acc. to my long time experience with theBat, new major versions become stable near the end of their life cycle :0, so last 4.x is a good choice.
I still use v 3.85 for work and test later versions only with accounts I don't care about.

Fahim Jafary

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27 June 2011 15:35:30

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bigg one wrote: Acc. to my long time experience with theBat, new major versions become stable near the end of their life cycle :0, so last 4.x is a good choice.

That was clinical and cold (but seems like quite accurate)!!!!!

mikeyww User Posts: 29 Points: 21 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 21 December 2007	#4 0 27 June 2011 16:12:08 Thanks for the tip. There's not much chance to run any kind of monitors. The Bat! consumes all CPU and disk time.

Roelof Otten

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27 June 2011 16:39:46

Could you give us some more details on your setup? All CPU and disk time seems a bit excessive.
Over here TB uses 32 MB RAM and no CPU-time, that's with six accounts (4 pop3, 2 imap) and a messagebase of more than 120,000 messages in 100+ folders. And also 100+ filters. I'm running an AV plug-in, but no spam plug-in, spm filtering is done on my server.
According to the beta list virtual folders are a real resources hog, but I can't comment on that as I don't use those.

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mikeyww User Posts: 29 Points: 21 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 21 December 2007	#6 0 27 June 2011 18:25:14 An image can be found below. http://cogit.net/images/bat110627.png The CPU usage is reasonable, but the disk usage is so high that I run The Bat! only under duress. I do have virtual folders. Edited: mikeyww - 27 June 2011 18:26:07

Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 60 Authority: 60 Joined: 19 September 2004	#7 0 27 June 2011 19:15:57 Apart from virtual folders, how many account, messages, etc What plug-ins are you using? What hsappens when you disable or delete the virtual folders.... __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.

mikeyww User Posts: 29 Points: 21 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 21 December 2007	#8 0 27 June 2011 19:52:42 When I disabled auto-refresh on the virtual folders, the problem disappeared. Thanks for the suggestion.

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