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VPCEC2S0E Runs like a dog - VAIO Media Plus is the culprit!

peterclong — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:20:39 GMT

Hi,

Our VAIO runs like a dog since we started using VAIO Media Plus to stream digital photos to the TV via the PS3. The CPU seems to spend about 20% of it's time servicing 2 processes; "VAIO Entertainment Database Service" and "VAIO Media Plus Database Manager" and thedisk I/O is going crazy; 400KB/sec I/O writes to the soh_core.db. The disk is constantly in action, the processor fan runs constantly and the overall performance is rubbish!

Has anyone else experienced this and what can we do to stop this performance hogging software?

Attached screenshot shows the huge amount of I/O that these processes are executing.

Nice looking laptop, very poor performance!!

VPCEC2S0E Runs like a dog - VAIO Media Plus is the culprit!

Blencogo — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:53:44 GMT

You could always disable Vaio Media Plus if you do not want it to run - you can always enable at any time in the future.

To disable Vaio Media Plus: -

1. Click on the Windows start menu and then click on the control panel. Click on the "System and Security" header and then click on the "Administrative Tools" tab at the bottom of the system and security menu.

2. Double-click on the 'Services' shortcut found in the administrative tools folder. Locate the following Vaio Media services within the service menu:

VAIO Entertainment Database Service
VAIO Entertainment File Import Service
VAIO Media Plus Content Importer
VAIO Media Plus Device Searcher
VAIO Media Plus Digital Media Server

3. Right-click on the instance and then click "Properties." Locate the start type field, which is found on the "General" tab. Click the listbox and then click "Disable" to turn off the service from starting up. Restart the Vaio once you've disabled all the Vaio Media Plus services.

VPCEC2S0E Runs like a dog - VAIO Media Plus is the culprit!

peterclong — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:15:58 GMT

Typical answer from the vendor, "if you don't want it to fail, don't use it"!!

I will certainly take your advice and switch off the whole hogging process, but as a developer, I'd like to meet the clown that designed such an inefficient process!!

I'll be looking for a decent media server and dumping this Sony rubbish!!