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I have seen a few posts about this problem, but no solution or
explanation. Any thoughts are appreciated. In short, 80% CPU usage,
but no processes doing it (only Idle showing 80-99% use).
Please read this carefully, it's a strange problem, not just a
misunderstanding. Based on my web search, it has occurred wtih NT and
XP computers, and no one has offered an explanation or solution.
Windows XP.
Task Manager--Performance Tab--shows CPU Usage hovering around 80%.
Same thing with perfmon.
Here are more details if they help: Commit charge is 421M / 4,285M
Running 62 Proceses (9 of them scvhost.exe)
Task Manager--Processes--most at 00, with one or two flickering up to
10 or 20.
System Idle is at 80 to 99% the whole time.
Page File Usage is almost nothing. PF Usage is 416 MB. Total Memory
is 3 Gigs, with 2.5 Gigs available and a system cache of 1.4 Gigs.
Commit Charge is a total around 426, 340, with a peak of 471,668 and a
limit of 4,388,464.
Kernel Memory is a total of around 97,000 with around 74,000 paged and
around 22,800 Nonpaged.
Same symptoms when running in Safe Mode.
I *think* that the computer takes more time than it should to do basic
tasks, but is not unreasonably slow.
I have Norton Internet Security Running and have run all sorts of
(legitimate) spyware checks with nothing found. I have done a full
scan for viruses.
What gives? Under these circumstances the Performance *should* be
below 20% or close to 0%. Is there a real problem here?
As they say on Car Talk--it's a puzzler.
explanation. Any thoughts are appreciated. In short, 80% CPU usage,
but no processes doing it (only Idle showing 80-99% use).
Please read this carefully, it's a strange problem, not just a
misunderstanding. Based on my web search, it has occurred wtih NT and
XP computers, and no one has offered an explanation or solution.
Windows XP.
Task Manager--Performance Tab--shows CPU Usage hovering around 80%.
Same thing with perfmon.
Here are more details if they help: Commit charge is 421M / 4,285M
Running 62 Proceses (9 of them scvhost.exe)
Task Manager--Processes--most at 00, with one or two flickering up to
10 or 20.
System Idle is at 80 to 99% the whole time.
Page File Usage is almost nothing. PF Usage is 416 MB. Total Memory
is 3 Gigs, with 2.5 Gigs available and a system cache of 1.4 Gigs.
Commit Charge is a total around 426, 340, with a peak of 471,668 and a
limit of 4,388,464.
Kernel Memory is a total of around 97,000 with around 74,000 paged and
around 22,800 Nonpaged.
Same symptoms when running in Safe Mode.
I *think* that the computer takes more time than it should to do basic
tasks, but is not unreasonably slow.
I have Norton Internet Security Running and have run all sorts of
(legitimate) spyware checks with nothing found. I have done a full
scan for viruses.
What gives? Under these circumstances the Performance *should* be
below 20% or close to 0%. Is there a real problem here?
As they say on Car Talk--it's a puzzler.