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Where do all the cycles go ?
I have XP Home, all the current patches. After the system has been up for abt
20 minutes, something kicks off that sucks up all the cycles for about 3 minutes, bringing the machine to a crawl. Task Manager shows Idle at abt 90%, with a couple of other tasks flashing in & out. After about 3 minutes, the machine returns to normal. How do I nail which task or process is chewing up all the cycles ? |
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Where do all the cycles go ?
"tecktalk" wrote in message ... I have XP Home, all the current patches. After the system has been up for abt 20 minutes, something kicks off that sucks up all the cycles for about 3 minutes, bringing the machine to a crawl. Task Manager shows Idle at abt 90%, with a couple of other tasks flashing in & out. After about 3 minutes, the machine returns to normal. How do I nail which task or process is chewing up all the cycles ? -- tecktalk Same thing is with one of the PC's I am working with. In our case it is antivirus, which is not shown in the task manager list. I bet you have same problem. Alex. |
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Where do all the cycles go ?
While it is misbehaving, press CNTRL-Alt-Del. that will bring up the
Windows Task Manager. Select the PROCESSES tab, and scroll down the CPU column looking for a Process that is using a large percentage of CPU cycles. -- --DaveW "tecktalk" wrote in message ... I have XP Home, all the current patches. After the system has been up for abt 20 minutes, something kicks off that sucks up all the cycles for about 3 minutes, bringing the machine to a crawl. Task Manager shows Idle at abt 90%, with a couple of other tasks flashing in & out. After about 3 minutes, the machine returns to normal. How do I nail which task or process is chewing up all the cycles ? -- tecktalk |
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Where do all the cycles go ?
DaveW wrote:
While it is misbehaving, press CNTRL-Alt-Del. that will bring up the Windows Task Manager. Select the PROCESSES tab, and scroll down the CPU column looking for a Process that is using a large percentage of CPU cycles. I think the OP mentioned that he's using Task Manager and he sees nothing is wrong. Yousuf Khan |
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Where do all the cycles go ?
tecktalk wrote:
I have XP Home, all the current patches. After the system has been up for abt 20 minutes, something kicks off that sucks up all the cycles for about 3 minutes, bringing the machine to a crawl. Task Manager shows Idle at abt 90%, with a couple of other tasks flashing in & out. After about 3 minutes, the machine returns to normal. How do I nail which task or process is chewing up all the cycles ? Is there a lot of hard disk activity when this is happening (LED stays lit solid)? Maybe you're swapping a lot, but there might be a bad sector on the hard disk that delays the swap update? Yousuf Khan |
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