What's the bottleneck when CPU and disks are not strained?

J

John Doe

Sometimes I wonder, when none of my four CPU cores are over 50%, and
disk activity is minimal, why would a process seem slow? The system
bus?

Mainly curious. Thanks.
 
J

John Doe

If the slowness might have to do with system memory (RAM), is
there some Performance Monitor counter for that? I should be able
to see something that is maxed out. Having a Performance Monitor
counter showing that bottleneck would be a big deal here.

Thanks.
 
B

Bug Dout

John Doe said:
Sometimes I wonder, when none of my four CPU cores are over 50%, and
disk activity is minimal, why would a process seem slow? The system
bus?

Mainly curious. Thanks.

Well, define slow. Interactive use? Another program? And compared to
what, that is, when does the system not seem slow?
 
D

Davej

Sometimes I wonder, when none of my four CPU cores are over 50%, and
disk activity is minimal, why would a process seem slow? The system
bus?

Mainly curious. Thanks.

Probably busy waiting for orders from the botnet?
 
P

Paul

John said:
Sometimes I wonder, when none of my four CPU cores are over 50%, and
disk activity is minimal, why would a process seem slow? The system
bus?

Mainly curious. Thanks.

I've seen cases I can't explain.

Paul
 
F

Flasherly

Sometimes I wonder, when none of my four CPU cores are over 50%, and
disk activity is minimal, why would a process seem slow? The system
bus?

Mainly curious. Thanks.

Coding efficiency, too. Some assembly compiled routines were
preferable (adaptable for spawning into a command interpreter process
or batched) over higher-language levels of abstractions - NET
frameworks, DLLs, or whatever else makes for accompanying arrays
graphical poison as preferably pretty to actually getting on the stick
for a rushjob. I've heard mention these new AMD processors are geared
for more efficient core interaction in terms of shared core
arbitration when dealing with programs not specifically written for a
multi-core platform;- but since they're already out and being sold,
I've as well heard a few sceptical reactions to implementing the
concept. Actually, past an unpopular conundrum for code-level
incompatibility with abandoned software, doesn't seem as there's much
choice in pragmatic terms, unless the rules of the universe were bent
past multicores contained in speeds at something higher than present
3-4Ghz processors. I mean, how many times does it take to get tired
of hearing the same 4-year-old proposal, that a multicore without
specific software lacks overall great advantage while only running
single processes over a single core without concurrence.
 
M

Mark

I've seen cases I can't explain.

It's called Windows ;-)
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