Why is Bridge constantly accessing drive?

Using ‘FileMonitor’, I see that PS CS2’s Bridge never stops banging away reading the hard disk. I added ‘I/O Other’ and ‘I/O Other Bytes’ columns to the Task Manager and the values are alway increasing.
Bridge is constantly (about every 1 second) accessing the hard disk and reading even when no changes have been made. Here’s an example:
9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 OPEN E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: All 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 DIRECTORY E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS FileBothDirectoryInformation: editing.xml 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 CLOSE E:\Documents and
Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 OPEN E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS Options: Open Access: All 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION E:\Documents and
Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS Attributes: D 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 CLOSE E:\Documents and
Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 OPEN E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: All 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 DIRECTORY E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS FileBothDirectoryInformation: settings.xml 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 CLOSE E:\Documents and
Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION \\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0 SUCCESS FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION \\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0#estk SUCCESS FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION \\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0 SUCCESS FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION
\\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0#estk SUCCESS
FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION \\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0 SUCCESS FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION
\\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0#estk SUCCESS
FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION \\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0 SUCCESS FileMailslotQueryInformation 9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 QUERY INFORMATION
\\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0#estk SUCCESS
FileMailslotQueryInformation

I’m guessing that Rob and Mike are the programmers who wrote this portion of the program.

Hey Rob or Mike (or anyone else reading this), is there any way of slowing this down so it doesn’t suck up so many resources?

"John" wrote in message

Using ‘FileMonitor’, I see that PS CS2’s Bridge never stops banging away reading the hard disk. I added ‘I/O Other’ and ‘I/O Other Bytes’ columns to the Task Manager and the values are alway increasing.

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I’m guessing that Rob and Mike are the programmers who wrote this portion of the program.

Hey Rob or Mike (or anyone else reading this), is there any way of slowing this down so it doesn’t suck up so many resources?

No one by that name see
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=19FC2KprBsUNx0DQ2K RD1cXlgvy3o0

They look like shares on a server.
Try asking the ones who write it at hhtp://www.adobeforums.com in the photoshop section.

MH

"John" wrote in message

Using ‘FileMonitor’, I see that PS CS2’s Bridge never stops banging away reading the hard disk. I added ‘I/O Other’ and ‘I/O Other Bytes’ columns to the Task Manager and the values are alway increasing.
Bridge is constantly (about every 1 second) accessing the hard disk and reading even when no changes have been made. Here’s an example:
9:31:27 AM Bridge.exe:4060 OPEN E:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Adobe\Workflow\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: All 9:31:27

\\.\MailSlot\Rob_and_Mike_bridge-1.0#estk SUCCESS
FileMailslotQueryInformation

No one by that name see
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=19FC2KprBsUNx0DQ2K RD1cXlgvy3o0 They look like shares on a server.

Try asking the ones who write it at hhtp://www.adobeforums.com in the photoshop section.

MH

I did and no one responded there either. I’m guessing that this is too technical of a question for PS users.

John,

I did and no one responded there either. I’m guessing that this is too technical of a question for PS users.

I would be most surprised if that was the case, did you post it to the correct forum? I have searched the one I suggested to you and can find no message re your problem, there is also a dedicated Bridge forum on the Adobeforum site.
Regards
Mike H

Mike Hyndman wrote:

John,

I did and no one responded there either. I’m guessing that this is too technical of a question for PS users.

I would be most surprised if that was the case, did you post it to the correct forum? I have searched the one I suggested to you and can find no message re your problem, there is also a dedicated Bridge forum on the Adobeforum site.
Regards
Mike H

I discovered some days ago that PS CS2 also constantly polls mailslots and the hard disk several times/second. I would have thought that they would have used semaphores or the like to coordinate communications to reduce the heavy polling but what do I know?