JKDefrag locks after Phase 2: Defragment

[LinxPatrick]

I am running JKDefrag on a Windows Vista 32 Bit machine with 2GB memory and a 120 GB hard drive. It's a Dell Latitude D-820. I have a couple Microsoft Virtual PC, virtual machines on it. At least one of them is near the end of the drive. The defragmented portion starts at about 3/4 of the way through the drive and ends at about 2/3 of the way through.

The problem is that after running JKDefrag for about a minute the white notification area just below the title bar expands to include all of the defragmented area except for a narrow yellow band in the middle. Then, the defragmentation continues to 100% and the program hangs.

When the program hangs the processor usage goes to 50%. The only way I can stop the process is to kill it using the task manager. The computer will not shut down until the process has been killed.

The same thing occured with v3.34. I was able to temporarily fix the problem by using the -a 7 option but it has returned.

Patrick Headley.

[jeroen]

JkDefrag is simply moving a very large file. It uses white to highlight the file with which it is busy. Which filename is shown in the status bar? That is the file. You can exclude the file with the JkDefrag "-e" option, if you want. Take a look at the advanced properties of the file, is it compressed? If so then that explains why it is slow. The percentage is only an estimate and can be wrong (and go up to 100%) especially in cases such as yours, when JkDefrag has moved some small files and then moves a huge file.

[boco]

Just for clarification, you're defragmenting the host system?

I'm asking because I have the same problem, but inside a Windows 2000 virtual machine guest (VirtualPC 2007SP1). After Phase 2, the JKDefrag just hangs, happily eats all the CPU and does nothing. Closing the window doesn't end the task, killing the task does not work. Shutdown: No way. Only reset restores the VM working state. On all other machines, JKDefrag works flawless.

[jeroen]

After Phase 2, the JKDefrag just hangs

Which file is JkDefrag processing at the time? Can you please run JkDefrag with the "-d 5" commandline option and post the last 100 lines or so here on the forum?

[boco]

No file processed at that time, Phase 2 is finished and Phase 3 (Fixup) never starts. Then the whole Explorer hangs. I'll try to reproduce it with -d 5. Will then post back here.