Allow erasing with LOW priority in background. Immediate STO

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psto

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Occasionally I want to erase some large directory trees with a total size of approx 3-5 GB.

When I start Eraser this operation took up to 1-2 hours to complete.
During this time the CPU load is close to 90% and the computer is almost blocked and unusable.

I would like to have an option to tell Eraser to do his job in background with a priority LOW.
Or - even better - monitor user activity and stop all erasing when CPU usage is above 5% during the last 5 minutes.

Furthermore I cannot stop erasing process. When I click the STOP button Eraser
wants to finish the erasing for the current file at first. When the current file has a size of lets say 2 GB
then the "stopping" lasts 30 minutes. This is unacceptable.

Could you include an really immediate stop in the next release?

Peter
 
Joel

Joel

Active Member
Which version ofEraser are you using? Version 6 stops almost immediately. How will using a low background process priority help in your situation if it is disk I/O?

Joel
 
Joel

Joel

Active Member
Okay in v6 stops occur almost instantaneously (on reasonably fast drives anyway).

As for your v5 problem I have a feeling it is because you are erasing an NTFS drive with either encryption or compression. Is that true?

Do you end up with a huge amount of disk space "missing" after the erase?

Joel
 
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