I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
turned off off-line files.

It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.

Thoughts?

Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
Which process is the bad one?


"bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> turned off off-line files.
>
> It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
>
> Thoughts?

Can anyone with a dual core let me know if the CPU Usage History graphs seem
to be correct for both cores?

--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> Any ideas on how to find out what is utilizing my second CPU at 70%?
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" wrote:
>
> > I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
> > between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
> > utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
> > second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
> > total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
> > my system would say that it is being utilized.
> >
> > When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
> > Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
> > much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
> > figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "Martin Stein" wrote:
> >
> > > Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> > > Which process is the bad one?
> > >
> > >
> > > "bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > > > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > > > turned off off-line files.
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > > > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >

I set up a test user and disconnected all devices. Basically just a stand
alone PC. After the indexer completed, there was nothing running that I
could see other than some basic processes. No network activity (obviously)
and no writing to disk other than the Resource Monitor. Still it appears
that 75% of one of the cores is being utilized by a process that isn't listed.

Thoughts?
--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> Can anyone with a dual core let me know if the CPU Usage History graphs seem
> to be correct for both cores?
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on how to find out what is utilizing my second CPU at 70%?
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "bobneedshelp" wrote:
> >
> > > I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
> > > between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
> > > utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
> > > second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
> > > total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
> > > my system would say that it is being utilized.
> > >
> > > When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
> > > Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
> > > much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
> > > figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > > "Martin Stein" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> > > > Which process is the bad one?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > > newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > > > > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > > > > turned off off-line files.
> > > > >
> > > > > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > > > > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > >

Tried showing processes from all users?

The 100% is across both core so it will look less than the actual for that
core.

After this I say use Performance monitor, Form the process group add % User
Time <All Instances>

you can the go through 1-by-1 looking for thing with high utilization.



"bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> Maybe this is a dual core issue?
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Toby Broom" wrote:
>
>> Tried showing processes from all users?
>>

Process (% User Time) is 3% or less.

Processor (% Processor Time) is 30-35% (Instance = _Total).

I'm not familiar with the Performance Monitor. What do I look at next? It
doesn't look like any of the Processes consume much of the CPU. It looks
like the Total Processor time is high however.

--
Bob


"Toby Broom" wrote:

> The 100% is across both core so it will look less than the actual for that
> core.
>
> After this I say use Performance monitor, Form the process group add % User
> Time <All Instances>
>
> you can the go through 1-by-1 looking for thing with high utilization.
>
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:8829F200-E44D-41E2-9415-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> > second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> > Maybe this is a dual core issue?
> >
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "Toby Broom" wrote:
> >
> >> Tried showing processes from all users?
> >>
>

It looks like % Interrupt Time on core 1 is 70%. On the other core it is
less than 3%. I guess this means that there is some device(s) like a mouse,
disk drivers, NIC, etc. causing this issue. How can I find this?

--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> Process (% User Time) is 3% or less.
>
> Processor (% Processor Time) is 30-35% (Instance = _Total).
>
> I'm not familiar with the Performance Monitor. What do I look at next? It
> doesn't look like any of the Processes consume much of the CPU. It looks
> like the Total Processor time is high however.
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Toby Broom" wrote:
>
> > The 100% is across both core so it will look less than the actual for that
> > core.
> >
> > After this I say use Performance monitor, Form the process group add % User
> > Time <All Instances>
> >
> > you can the go through 1-by-1 looking for thing with high utilization.
> >
> >
> >
> > "bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:8829F200-E44D-41E2-9415-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> > > second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> > > Maybe this is a dual core issue?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > > "Toby Broom" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Tried showing processes from all users?
> > >>
> >

The Interrupts/sec is sustained over 1000. I've compared this value to
System: Systems Calls/sec. I don't think this is a hardware issue because it
didn't exhibit this issue with WindowsXP; therefore, I think it must be a
driver issue. Any thoughts on how to track this down?
--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> Maybe this is a dual core issue?
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Toby Broom" wrote:
>
> > Tried showing processes from all users?
> >

I suppose you can disable the devices from device manager and see if that
has an effect on the CPU load.

The results explain why your weren't seeing anything in task manager.

I suspect USB things?


"bobneedshelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The Interrupts/sec is sustained over 1000. I've compared this value to
> System: Systems Calls/sec. I don't think this is a hardware issue because
> it
> didn't exhibit this issue with WindowsXP; therefore, I think it must be a
> driver issue. Any thoughts on how to track this down?
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" wrote:
>
>> I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
>> second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
>> Maybe this is a dual core issue?
>>
>> --
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> "Toby Broom" wrote:
>>
>> > Tried showing processes from all users?
>> >