How to give service to use more CPU

[Guest]

I've got a service running on Windows 2000 Server that is doing some work on
the server processing files but when it runs, it is only using up like 1% of
the CPU even though there is up to 80% cpu not being used. So, the
processing is taking way longer than it should.

how can i allow this service to use up more cpu so it works faster?

 

[Guest]

You can recode the service [which is unlikely] otherwise there is no user
intervention on how the program runs. Your only control is priority which
does not affect cpu usage per say.

 

[Guest]

So is there nothing I can do? It's frustrating because the system idle is at
like 85% and the service is at like 1% and so it's not running fast enough.
Is there another way besides a service? Maybe just a stand alone .exe?

 

[Dan Seur]

If the service is doing disk reads/writes (and waiting for access
completion) then its unlikely anything you or anyone can do will boost
the CPU time the service uses. Disk access is enormously slower than CPU
cycles. As Joshua said, maybe you should recode the service to make it
faster. Or preload the files of interest on some medium much faster than
disk.

So is there nothing I can do? It's frustrating because the system idle is at
like 85% and the service is at like 1% and so it's not running fast enough.
Is there another way besides a service? Maybe just a stand alone .exe?



:

You can recode the service [which is unlikely] otherwise there is no user
intervention on how the program runs. Your only control is priority which
does not affect cpu usage per say.

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