Tuesday, March 21, 2006
What is a Compaction Thread?
Posted by Jon Westfall in "DEVELOPER" @ 03:00 AM
"I've received a few questions from users who have said that their WM5 device seems to slow down and speed up erratically. Some have dug in and found that "filesys.exe" is using a lot of CPU power and that it appears to be running something called a "Compaction Thread." There have also been questions about a registry key called CompactionPrio256. I can't explain some of the bigger problems people are describing, but I can at least tell you what these things are and what they're trying to do."
A bit of elightenment on File System operations and the mysterious Compaction Thread. Couple this with this article for all you ever wanted to know about speeding up file system operations, and more!
A bit of elightenment on File System operations and the mysterious Compaction Thread. Couple this with this article for all you ever wanted to know about speeding up file system operations, and more!
