retrorun continuous I/O

[jhg]

Retrorun seems to be doing continuous I/O while sitting in the background. Here

 

are some stats from Task Manager (Win2K) after retrorun has been up for 3 days.

 

 

Total CPU: 00:12:37

 

Mem Usage:3348K

 

Page Faults:872

 

I/O Reads:4,142,295

 

I/O Writes:2

 

I/O Other:7,249,459

 

 

 

 

The I/O Reads number is increasing by 16 per second, and I/O Other

 

is going up by 28 every second. Do the arithmetic, and both numbers

 

indicate an uptime of 2.99 days, which is exactly the time since the

 

last system boot.

 

 

 

This doesn't appear to be a problem, but I'm curious about what retrorun

 

is doing that requires so many I/Os, making retrorun have by far

 

the largest I/O numbers. Even Norton AntiVirus, with continuous

 

system scanning enabled, only racked up only 323K IO reads and

 

2M "IO Other".

 

 

 

What's retrorun doing while it's supposedly idle? Inquiring minds

 

want to know :-)