Chrome causing HD LED to be on

[Jobos]

Has anyone else seen an issue with Google Chrome constancy causing the HD LED to be on? I know it's chrome as each time I close it the LED goes off and back on again as soon as Chrome is open. We are using 93.0.4577.63

[Chaniel]

Sorry - What do you mean by HD LED?

[Primus]

Are you using mechanical hard drives?

How much RAM have you got?

What other programs are open at the same time?

Is it possible you have exhausted physical memory and are using virtual memory?

[mavhc]

run resmon.exe to see in more detail what's going on

[Jobos]

The HD LED is the small light on the front of the machine that shows when the drive is being accessed.

 

My machine has a mechanical drive used for storage that is in addition to the SSD that the OS is on. The memory is 8GB and when I first noticed the odd behaviour this morning I hadn't opened anything else apart from Chrome. Not had time to run any further checks but this afternoon I walked by another machine and could see the drive LED was lit solid and Chrome was running. This might be pure coincidence but it's suspicious and worthy of more testing.

[Oaktech]

Then you need to check resmon and see what is doing what...