X1/X2 Respond slowly after Idle [Solved]

robert_e_bone


Yup - you have some tweaks to make for your system.

1.  Is it a desktop? Laptop? Crew Cut?  Comb Over?  (Perhaps you can list your system specs in your signature - just go to the forum profile and add them - it REALLY helps us helpers.
2.  What OS?  64-bit or 32?
3.  What's your shoe size?  Favorite color?

I will list out some things for you to tweak that will help your computer not get hypnotized and fall asleep on you.  It's pretty simple stuff, and will fix this issue - I just need about 15 minutes to finish helping someone from Poland who is trying to finish something before they go to sleep or get invaded or whatever is going on over there - I DO know it is getting late for them.

Bob Bone

robert_e_bone


I think it does not like all the links, but thanks for the specs.

I do not know anything much about bootcamp and Macs, but here is the deal on what we were talking about.

Windows has default settings for things like balancing power needs and conserving power, and all of that.  For laptops there is sense in that, but not for us POWER users.

What is happening is that the defaults in Windows are set to turn off things like your hard drive, or your monitor, or both, after some number of minutes.  It will also go inter hibernate mode, and that sort of thing.

When it does this, it has to fire it all back up again, and when you are in something like a web browser, that's not a big deal.  But, if you are in something like Sonar, it has to load all of that stuff back into memory, and that can be a ridiculous amount of stuff, hence the nutty slow downs.

So, the thing to do is to tell Windows NOT to do all that.

There are a couple of places you want to go and make some tweaks:

1.  Go to: Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options.  Once there, click on High Performance.
2.  Now, to the right of that click on the link to Change Plan Settings
3.  When that opens up, you should see it set to NEVER for both Turning Off the Display and for Put the Computer to Sleep.
4.  Click on Change Advanced Power Settings - that will open up another dialog box
5.  Click on the + sign next to where it says Hard Disk.
6.  Click on the + sign next to Turn Off Hard Disk After
7.  Enter 999 for the Setting.  This means it will not turn of the hard disk until 999 minutes with no activity.
8.  Click Apply and back your way out of everything - clicking Apply anytime you see it enabled to click.

That should do it.  Now your computer will stay awake as long as you do - maybe even longer.

Bob Bone

"robert_e_bones"
It was my understanding that processing large/sustained data transfers was enhanced with this setting checked.

robert_e_bone


Could well be.

I thought I remembered that even though I set the power options to High Performance that if you go into the advanced settings within that power plan that it STILL has it set to turn off the HARD DRIVE after some short number of minutes.

THAT is why I suggest that you go look at that and make sure it is set to some crazy high number - I use 999.

Everything you indicate above points to the hard drive going nighty-nite.

Also, MULTIPLE places on web indicate it is better to have performance optimized for Background Services, so I do not at all understand why you seem to have deliberately not made THAT change - a bit baffling.  Your disk transfer process FASTER with that setting checked.

Anyways, I URGE you to go check that SPECIFIC setting under advanced power settings for the hard drive sleep setting, and likewise urge you to optimize for background services.

Bob Bone

robert_e_bone


Yeah I learned that 0 meant never - just haven't gone back in to change it.  Thanks

So, HOPEFULLY this will take care of your particular problems here, and life will return to its regular stress levels :)

I look forward to hearing how it goes

Bob Bone