IO Writes

[murdock]

Holy shit, why are there so many disk writes going on?

I thought Steam had a lot when I left it running, but this just blows everything Ive seen out of the water. Is this normal for scripts that have a loop in autoit, or is my computer just weird? (My computers been on for maybe 3 days, and I only run the script a few times every day for a couple minutes)

The relevant loop, if it even matters:

While ($endCheck < 19 And WinExists($oIE))
    $url = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "locationurl")
    If StringInStr($url, $pExplore) OR StringInStr($url, $pIndex) Then
        _IENavigate ($oIE, $pExplore)
        $endCheck += 1
        $exploreNum += 1
    ElseIf StringInStr($url, $pLand) Then
        _IENavigate ($oIE, $pHead)
        _IELoadWait($oIE)
        $endCheck = Land($oIE)
    Else
        _IENavigate($oIE, $pClearAction)
    EndIf
WEnd

Func Land($foIE)
    If $exploreNum > 120 Then 
        _IENavigate($foIE, $pStorage)
        $exploreNum = 0
    Else
        _IENavigate ($foIE, $pBooty)
    EndIf
    _IENavigate ($foIE, $pIndex)
    Return 0
EndFunc;==> Land()

edit: I meant disk, my bad

Edited February 15, 2008 by murdock

[jokke]

Mainly cause you have no sleep inn your script. If the script only runs a few times a day id say add a 2 min sleep or something like that.

[murdock]

Mainly cause you have no sleep inn your script. If the script only runs a few times a day id say add a 2 min sleep or something like that.

I have Sleep(). Its called from _IENavigate() which calls_IELoadWait() which calls Sleep().

Edited February 15, 2008 by murdock

[jokke]

Well that sleep aint long enough. You need a sleep to slow down your script.

But having alot IO writes should not be a problem unless its writing to a flash drive witch have a max value IO writes before its dead.