While attempting to track down the cause of some unexplained disk activity, a reader discovered that it was caused by a background process associated with running MS Word v.X demo. Bill Miller writes: ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

I started up this morning and did some video capture and editing. I expect a lot of hard disk thrashing whilst Premiere is running. But I finished and closed the program down, and still hear loads of ...

0x0003 4 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS 0x0004 4 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS 0x0005 4 0 R_ERR response for non-data FIS 0x0006 4 0 R ...

Want to do a quick performance check on your Linux system? You might want to take a look at the dstat command. Linux provides a number of commands that provide information about disk and system ...