Continuous SSD writes issue with Everything64.exe

[Debugger]

Hello,

I am experiencing a serious issue with Everything64.exe on my system. The program appears to continuously write data in the background to my SSD, causing extremely high write activity. This not only slows down my system but also raises concerns about potential premature wear on the SSD.

Details:

Everything64 version:1.5

Windows version: Win 11 Pro 24H2
Observed behavior: Continuous disk writes even when the application is idle

Disk: SSD PM893 2TB

Monitoring tools: I have used disk monitoring and analysis tools which clearly show how new data is being rapidly written to the drive, even without active searching.

Could you please advise if this is expected behavior and if there is a way to reduce or disable these continuous background writes?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards,

[void]

Normally, Everything doesn't write to disk.

Please check if you have enabled debug logging under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> debug_log

Please send your Help -> Troubleshooting information.



Everything will save your index to disk daily.
How large is your Everything.db?

Please check your Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> auto_save_* settings.



Everything will save your current session to disk each time you change the search. (only once each 15 seconds)
How large is your Session.json? (Session-1.5a.json in the alpha build)

Please check your Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> session_store_* settings.
Consider disabling session_store under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> session_store

[Debugger]

I am using the default settings, I have not changed anything in these settings.


Everything.db 125 MB

No such file found on disk: Session.json

debug_log - all false

[void]

What is your disk monitoring tool showing?

Compare it with the Resource Monitor (Task Manager -> Performance -> Resource Monitor) -> Disk

What is the filename of file that Everything is writing to disk?

[Debugger]

Regarding Everything 1.5: I changed a few default settings according to your recommendations in the previous post, and I also disabled the service and background operation. I’m now running it as administrator, and I don’t see a process constantly writing to the SSD—the saving has stopped—but does this mean that the database won’t be updated with new files?

[therube]

> continuously write data

How much (was it) continuously writing?

> extremely high write activity

Again?

No such file found on disk: Session.json

And if you search for

Session .json

?
(Depending on your Instance name, it might not be exactly "Session.json".
In any case, look in your Profile directory & you should see the file.)

I'll note that a session.json may not be created until you've actually performed at least 1 search.


You might try a different tool to monitor I/O*.
(I/O*.
In these cases "I/O" is probably both disk AND memory I/O, but at least you can see a difference between a period of inactivity & a period of "usage".)
(Do you still have your high I/O instance [backed up], or can you re-created it?)

Any I/O I'm seeing (without specifically causing I/O) is neglible (B/s or low kB/s).

System Informer:
2. I/O is negligible.
3. high I/O during extraction of 100K (small) files.
.

Everything - IO system informer.png

Process Explorer:
1. I/O Read, I/O Write, I suppose they were since the process was started
& in the case of PID 4096, that was 2 months ago (so ~2 GB of data)
I/O Delta were during the noted extraction of files.
2. the higher I/O graph compares with 3. <above.
.

Everything - IO process explorer.png

[Debugger]

There is no such file, at least not related to Everytnight but other applications.
session .json

Everything64.exe 16 hours running in the background. It could store 10 GB of data or more, depending on how much data has changed—Firefox alone can generate over 25-30+  GB of data per day!
SSDFresh can analyze live, great program, I don't use any other.

I disabled some settings in the Everything program. Now, when I start it, it shows, for example, that it has updated over 50,000 files.
Most of the data is generated through the browser, with YouTube being the biggest contributor.

[void]

Please check the disk usage with resource monitor.
The resource monitor also shows the name of the file being written to by Everything.

How much data is being written?
and what filename?



Your tool could be counting all IO writes as writes to your SSD.
Everything writes to named pipes and other handles, but rarely to disk.
Are you sure they are writes only and not read and writes? -Everything will read a lot of data from your SSD.
Reading from your SSD is not going to cause any noticeable wear.



The alpha build uses Session-1.5a.json
How large is this file?

I disabled some settings in the Everything program. Now, when I start it, it shows, for example, that it has updated over 50,000 files.

What shows 50,000 updated files?
Where are you getting this information?

I’m now running it as administrator, and I don’t see a process constantly writing to the SSD—the saving has stopped—but does this mean that the database won’t be updated with new files?

To me, this indicates that your disk monitoring tool is incorrectly counting writes to named pipes as a SSD writes.
Everything will detect changes fine if you run Everything as admin.

[Debugger]

What shows 50,000 updated files?
Where are you getting this information?

It showed up super fast in the status bar and the "Updating files...NUMBERS" message quickly disappeared.

[horst.epp]

Nothing like this happens on my system.
There is almost no disc write I/O while no task is running.
Even making a large non indexed content search only adds disc read I/O..
______________________________________________________
Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.4946)
Everything 1.5.0.1396a (x64), Everything Toolbar 2.0.3
Total Commander 11.56 x64 / x86

[Debugger]

Nothing like this happens on my system.
There is almost no disc write I/O while no task is running.
Even making a large non indexed content search only adds disc read I/O..
______________________________________________________
Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.4946)
Everything 1.5.0.1396a (x64), Everything Toolbar 2.0.3
Total Commander 11.56 x64 / x86

I hadn’t realized earlier that it was writing data… but until I noticed where all the writes were coming from. So I’ve now changed several default settings. But I hadn’t known about this before… over a very, very long time, and in a short period, more than 10 TB had been written to the SSD.

https://postimg.cc/kBSjkPh3

[void]

It showed up super fast in the status bar and the "Updating files...NUMBERS" message quickly disappeared.

The number to the right of Updating files... is the result count.
Not the number of files being updated.

You can find the number of files updated under Index -> Index Journal.