Chkdsk eats memory

[aor999]

Have anyone encountered CHKDSK eating tons of memory?

Why this is happening?

 

[Peter Martin]

it does a lot of work very quickly.

 

[Peter Martin]

just tested... it should only be around 200k or so, maybe your antivirus is running or something slowing it down, or maybe a drive that is failing

 

[aor999]

I use MSE. If the antivirus would be the case, so its process would be the one that eats memory, rather than chkdsk, and would also eat CPU as well, but this it isn't the case.
chkdsk only scans for errors in the disk file system and bad sectors on the disk surface. Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic don't eats memory such when scanning for bad sectors.

 

[Peter Martin]

you specified /r (locating bad sectors, etc.) and it's doing it's job so leave it alone if you really want it repaired. if you had not used it, it would be much less memory usage and cpu

 

[aor999]

This considerably slowing my computer, so I had to run it, when I get sleeping when the computer isn't in use, and leave it on all night.

 

[Peter Martin]

most likely that you can temporarily disable sleeping. your drive might have lots of problems and if there is lots of data on it, well, it's going to take a while.

what are your system specs.

one of my tests was off my anemic a6 notebook and it had about 2TB (lots of raw video for packaging later... lol) files to check but I never said /F and /R