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15th Sep 2008, 14:28
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| I've got an intel E2200 in my computer, and up until this point it's been able to handle multitasking pretty well. But for some reason, just today, it has decided that it needs to use 18% of the processor just sitting there. I am running music in the background, but after a check of the task manager Winamp isn't taking up any processor time...i'm also using 56% of my 4GBs of RAM and I'm not nor have I yet today run anything intensive. Usually right after a restart/power on it eats about 25% of my 4GBs. The reason I decided to check was because playback from winamp becomes distorted whenever the processor starts getting taxed. It did this in my old PC, and today it made me check. It started doing it when I clicked a link in firefox. NEVER should clicking the link to go to Computer Juice use 80% of my processor. There's not a whole lot of large files on the main page (pictures) so I don't know what's going on. Any help would be appreciated :D |
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15th Sep 2008, 15:42
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| So explorer is using 18 in taskman or what?
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15th Sep 2008, 15:45
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| What? |
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15th Sep 2008, 18:55
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| You say at idle it's using CPU time and you said you opened taskman but you didn't say what you saw _using_ that CPU time.
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15th Sep 2008, 19:34
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| That's the thing, nothing was adding up to use that much time. firefox (sitting idle, a page fully loaded) was taking like 2 or 3 percent. winamp wasn't using any. i don't know where the rest was being used. I was looking at all the processes from all users. I restarted, that seemed to help a bit. I guess it just needed a restart  |
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16th Sep 2008, 00:11
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| there must have been some program using it, if it happens again, open task manager, go to procceses, and then sort by CPU usage, and see what's at the top using the CPU.
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16th Sep 2008, 10:07
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| Where did you get the idle reading from? If you got it from something like a gadget on the sidebar and nothing in taskmanager was using it the gadget may just be screwed up. I seem to get that occasionally, mine was "apparently" running at 98% consistently at idle. Don't think so. Closed gadget reopened = 3% and 4% :D
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16th Sep 2008, 11:28
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| Yeah I wasn't sure what exactly it was though. Oh well. When I can't figure out what it is I just restart the computer. That usually helps. Though I have to hit my boot menu each time due to the old PATA drive I put in with jumpers set wrong and I'm too lazy to open the computer and pull the jumper off >.< |
