Windows 2000 Server's CPU Usage sitting at 100%...

[Kevin Lyons]

Hello,

I run a Windows 2000 Server machine, and just this week it all of a
sudden has been running EXTREMELY sluggishly while making regular
computer tasks rather impossible to complete!!

I immediately checked its Task Manager to verify Performance and
Processes, and sure enough the computer is sitting at CPU Usage:
100%. I have taken screen prints of the Performance and Processes
screens and posted them at the following URLs for reference. In the
Processes screen I presorted the list with the 'Mem Usage' column
descending to determine what process is hogging the most memory:

http://www.dslextreme.com/users/kevinlyons/taskManagerPerformance.jpg
http://www.dslextreme.com/users/kevinlyons/taskManagerProcesses.jpg

The only thing I know that has changed in the system in the past few
days is installing the latest hotfixes/service patches/packs from
Microsoft for the month of July '04 for Windows 2000, Internet
Explorer, and Outlook Express. Perhaps one or more of these might be
a cause of the problem?

If anyone can help me to figure out what is happening I would be most
grateful!

Thanks much,

Kevin

 

[John McGaw]

Hello,

I run a Windows 2000 Server machine, and just this week it all of a
sudden has been running EXTREMELY sluggishly while making regular
computer tasks rather impossible to complete!!

I immediately checked its Task Manager to verify Performance and
Processes, and sure enough the computer is sitting at CPU Usage:
100%. I have taken screen prints of the Performance and Processes
screens and posted them at the following URLs for reference. In the
Processes screen I presorted the list with the 'Mem Usage' column
descending to determine what process is hogging the most memory:

http://www.dslextreme.com/users/kevinlyons/taskManagerPerformance.jpg
http://www.dslextreme.com/users/kevinlyons/taskManagerProcesses.jpg

The only thing I know that has changed in the system in the past few
days is installing the latest hotfixes/service patches/packs from
Microsoft for the month of July '04 for Windows 2000, Internet
Explorer, and Outlook Express. Perhaps one or more of these might be
a cause of the problem?

If anyone can help me to figure out what is happening I would be most
grateful!

Thanks much,

Kevin

I am absolutely and totally NOT an expert in 2000 server. However a glance
at your processes dump made it look like there was a process named
cidaemcn.exe eating 97% of your CPU time. This seems a bit odd since there
doesn't seem to be any online reference to such an executable. There is
however a cidaemon.exe which is the normal indexing daemon. Was this just a
glitch in the image dump process or does the process really have the odd
name?
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