(Msg. 9) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:29 am
Post subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>performance_maintenance (more info?)
Do you have a dual core CPU? If yes then Idle is running 98% of the time
and since it only requires 1 CPU your total CPU usage is 50%.
"smberger" <guest DeleteThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Shawn,
> It has been a long weekend. Anyway, I decided to reload Vista. The PC
> came with a disc that was labeled Vista recovery. I called the company
> tech line and they told me it reloads Vista and I would lose my own
> files. Well, they were wrong. I started recovery and it looks like it
> connects to MS to do the recovery. It said it would take a few hours. It
> took a little over 11 hours. First it does some checking, then gets
> files then loads and keeps rebooting and eventually it gets done. It
> then tells me that windows will not activate without my typing in the
> Vista product number, which you would thing that would ask for before it
> started. Anyway when yhe desktop came up I had my own stuff still there.
> A citrix connection to work which did give me an error message but did
> connect me. And I still had Firefox and few other things. And response
> was OK but not great. But the kicker is that when I checked task
> manager it still shows 50% CPU usage. Maybe I just never noticed it.
> Does Vista use that much? The performance screen is split. The one on
> the right the graph shows it is all the way up and the one on the left
> just shows 1 or 2 percent. So in total it is around 50 -52%. But then
> why does processes show 98 percent idle.
> I am going to try the list you sent me to see if anything changes. It
> was impossible to try before because it could take 5 to 10 minutes per
> response.
> Thanks again and I will keep you posted.
>
>
> --
> smberger
(Msg. 10) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:17 pm
Post subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
SMBerger,
Take a look in Resource Monitor under the CPU line. It will list
everything that is using the CPU and by how much percentage. It may help
in finding out what is using so much. What CPU do you have? If it's a
older slower one, then Vista could put a bit of strain on it. 50-52% is
still a lot though.
This tutorial will show you how to open the Resoure Monitor if needed.
(Msg. 11) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:31 pm
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Hi guys & gals,
There is another post in this forum "suddenly slow" which also describes
this problem. I too am experiencing the problem. I am getting the feeling
it is a windows vista problem probably from an update installed recently.
somehow we need to get ms involved to resolve this issue. we can't all be
using the same hardware or have the same program installed that would be
common to cause this issue surely
"Brink" wrote:
>
> SMBerger,
>
> Take a look in Resource Monitor under the CPU line. It will list
> everything that is using the CPU and by how much percentage. It may help
> in finding out what is using so much. What CPU do you have? If it's a
> older slower one, then Vista could put a bit of strain on it. 50-52% is
> still a lot though.
>
> This tutorial will show you how to open the Resoure Monitor if needed.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/111020-resource-monitor.html >
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>
(Msg. 12) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:13 pm
Post subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Well if you google vista cpu you will find lots of similar issues. I
tried some of the things that helped others and it did nothing for me.
In some instances people had just loaded something new but in many cases
it turned out to be something in Vista. But the problem is how to find
it so that you can shut it off. So I will try what Shawn suggests and
see if I can pin it down at least for my PC. You should try it for yours
as well and see what comes up.
(Msg. 13) Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:11 pm
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Hi Shawn. I got through a few steps from your list last night.
What is-Click on *Continue *(UAC), *Yes*, and then *OK* when prompted.I
never got that.
So far no improvement and in fact it seems to be getting slower. If I
move a panel it gets recreated over and over from the place I started
till where I place it. I will continue on with the list tonight.
Thanks for you efforts,
Sam
(Msg. 14) Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:24 pm
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smberger;710980 Wrote:
> Hi Shawn. I got through a few steps from your list last night. > What is-Click on *Continue *(UAC), *Yes*, and then *OK* when prompted.I > never got that. > > So far no improvement and in fact it seems to be getting slower. If I > move a panel it gets recreated over and over from the place I started > till where I place it. I will continue on with the list tonight. > Thanks for you efforts, > Sam
The "Continue" is for the UAC (User Account Control) Prompt. Unless you
have UAC turned off or elevated the administrator account, it will
usually pop-up after you click on the "Resource Monitor" button in Task
Manager asking your permission to "Continue" before running it.
Shawn
--
Brink
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them.*
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:20 am
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Your system may be getting hung up waiting for disk transfers.
How much memory on your system?
Do you have DMA disk transfers enabled?
How much disk space do you have allocated to your paging file?
"smberger" <guest.RemoveThis@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Shawn. I got through a few steps from your list last night.
> What is-Click on *Continue *(UAC), *Yes*, and then *OK* when prompted.I
> never got that.
>
> So far no improvement and in fact it seems to be getting slower. If I
> move a panel it gets recreated over and over from the place I started
> till where I place it. I will continue on with the list tonight.
> Thanks for you efforts,
> Sam
>
>
> --
> smberger
(Msg. 16) Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:05 pm
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JW;711831 Wrote:
> Your system may be getting hung up waiting for disk transfers.
> How much memory on your system?
> Do you have DMA disk transfers enabled?
> How much disk space do you have allocated to your paging file?
>
> Hi JW,
> 2 GB memory with AMD dual 3800.
> How do I enable DMA disk transfers?
> Do not know how to see space allocated to paging file.
> I do have defrag scheduled and it says it did it but I ran it last
> night and
> it took a couple hours. But did not see any improvement after that.
>
> I usually see many svchost processes. Does that mean anything. It
> usually does not show any cpu usage for them.
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