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echo: nthelp
to: Ross.Cassell
from: Ellen K
date: 2003-04-21 22:30:26
subject: Perplexed

What is GOBACK?

> Hello Tony!
> 18 Apr 03 01:00, you wrote to Ross.Cassell:
>> Undoubtedly someone is leaking memory fast and eating the swap file.
>> On W2K the Task Manager's process tab will show you mem usage on a per
>> process basis.  I imagine XP is similar.  Locate and expunge the
>> offending gorpware, I doubt its something in the XP ship group.
> The Swap file using Windows defaults of 1.5g, remained unchanged.
> On a whim I disabled GOBACK and the excess disk activity appears to have
> stopped, I re-enabled system restore. I am down to 55+ gigs free, but I
> accepted the default for 12% on drive C, so if it took 8 gigs for its own
> restore points, thats darn close to being right. Had I not disabled Goback, I
>would have been down to 50+ gigs free (remembering that sys restore at the tim
>was disabled) after it sitting overnight, I will check it again this afternoon
> If I am right, GOBACK was the culprit.
> ==
> Ross
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