Why does 7.3 read/write every 15 seconds?

["Shulzhenko Vasyl" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

>Shutdown the IECC Admin agent under services and see if you still get it.
>
>Bashar Chalabi wrote:
>
>> I used to have 7.22 Personal Edition on my 266MHz Pentium II notebook, with
>> NT4. I recently upgraded to 7.3 TC7, Developer Edition. Although the
>> performance of the database server is more or less the same (my data is
>> really small), the performance of the PC as a whole has dropped down.
>>
>> The Performance Monitor shows file read and write activity, every 15
>> seconds. The Task Monitor shows at the same time a 50% utilisation peak,
>> that lasts for 2 seconds. It identifies the culprit as OnInit.
>>
>> This being an EIDE disk, the read and write more or less freezes the
>> machine.
>>
>> Any ideas as to why OnInit wants to read and write every 15 seconds. There
>> is no database activity what-so-ever. Checkpoints are happening every 300
>> seconds.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bashar Chalabi
>> Card Tech Ltd, London

>>Shutdown the IECC Admin agent under services and see if you still get it.
>
>Thanks, it works! How about a rational explanation as to why the IECC Admin
>Agent makes OnInit do some mysterious work every 15 seconds?