This was a fresh install (FYI) so there is no other software on the disk. I swept away the file clutter and turned off shadow files and got rid of them too. (Man does it look better and run smoother w/o shadow files!) Alleviated 89gigs free.
So I was able to find a way to reproduce the problem with this one little project. Bring in a video (69meg) and have it next to another video (above or below) and Trim the video. Click OK, brings me back ... all is ok until I do something like adjust time location of a video or move the playback pointer. THEN PD9 halts. At this point they have been hard stops.
I like Win7's Recourse Monitor tool and sat here for an hour analyzing the data. ...and well, my conclusion is I didn't learn the answer
, but I did rule out disk and memory problems related to "not enough space". Page faults are negligible, total ram usage is 25%, disk activity during a lock up is minimal to non existant (which doesn't rule out the disk though).... and it looks more and more like PD9 software code hanging.
Rocket-scientist, I'm gonna have to shut down your explination on my problem. You are describing a complete system lockup and sounds like you know a lot, but enough to get you into trouble. PD locks w/o a hitch to any other sevice or resource which made it easy to monitor the fault activity.
I read those threads again and did some searching related to hangs and lockup. This whole idea of not enough disk space is preposterous and seems to have gotten stuck in your heads. It looks to stem from a single person where it spread from there. The OS doesnt use a disk as RAM except only as large as the page file. PD does utilze the video files on disk but only for reading (PD does not write to any video files) so requirements of large disk space are defunct. Yes, maybe some people have a bunch of crap on their pc by the time they are running out of disk space and a reload fixes it. The other commonality in a couple of those threads are SSD's. I've heard plenty of negative issues with these drives which why changing is #2 on my list.
Trying anything else you guys might have me do is #1 (especially since i dont have a new disk yet). I'd be interested in a new line of thought on this subject. I'm game for tweaking settings, checking drivers, PD version (2930), PD reload, is the project tainted, i dunno, i'm out of ideas.