Does USN journalling adversely affect PC performance?

[burgundy]

I have an old XP system which is very slow and struggles to keep up.

I installed Everything a long time ago and seem to recall that Everything enables USN journaling for all drives by default.

Does USN journaling mean that the system has to do additional work in order to write to the journal every time there is a file change?

I need to minimize any unnecessary workload on my poor system and wonder if I should turn off USN journaling. I can add that my XP does not use the file indexing feature.

Thank you for any info.

[therube]

http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=546
(Imagine there's FAQ, someplace?)

[burgundy]

http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=546
(Imagine there's FAQ, someplace?)

I found that thread (which you probably saw I started) to be a bit inconclusive. One reply said "Everything"'s impact on your PC responsiveness and performance should be minimal and unnoticeable"

More recently, I disabled Everything on a slow system and found the disk activity for everyday file management tasks was very distinctly improved. I guess it's perhaps a combination of some relatively large hard drives and a slow system. On that system I have regretfully disabled Everything.

[void]

Enabling USN journaling should have a minimal performance impact.

"Everything", on the other hand can have a performance impact on slower machines, depending on file system usage.
Renaming and deleting folders with Everything running is demanding, and will have the biggest performance hit on the system.