| Subject: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 5/9/2008 9:18:10 AM |
| From: smberger [Email Address Protection] |
I have Vista Home premium for 2 years. About a week ago it slowed to a point where it may take 5 minutes to respond. Task manager Performance shows about 50% CPU usaage but Processes says 98% idle. If I start in safe mode Task Manager is the same but I seem to get a little better response. I use a free version of AVG. This problem seems to show up a lot in Google but each one seems to get resolved a different way. I tried some things others did but it has had no affect. The last time I started there were about 10 SVCHOST processes. I ended a few but nothing changed. It takes a long time for one to end because the response is so slow. And it gets slower the longer I am up. Where do I start to get to the bottom of this? -- smberger |
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| Subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 5/14/2008 10:05:11 AM |
| From: smberger [Email Address Protection] |
JW;711831 Wrote: > Your system may be getting hung up waiting for disk transfers. > How much memory on your system? > Do you have DMA disk transfers enabled? > How much disk space do you have allocated to your paging file? > > Hi JW, > 2 GB memory with AMD dual 3800. > How do I enable DMA disk transfers? > Do not know how to see space allocated to paging file. > I do have defrag scheduled and it says it did it but I ran it last > night and > it took a couple hours. But did not see any improvement after that. > > I usually see many svchost processes. Does that mean anything. It > usually does not show any cpu usage for them. -- smberger |
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| Subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 5/14/2008 11:02:47 AM |
| From: "JW" [Email Address Protection] |
Use Help for DMA or for Paging Paging is also known as virtual memory. SvcHost is the host task for your system services most of which never run after first being started unless they are needed. "smberger" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:38463dfcbe0a233ae863403bb1c5316d@nntp-gateway.com... > > JW;711831 Wrote: >> Your system may be getting hung up waiting for disk transfers. >> How much memory on your system? >> Do you have DMA disk transfers enabled? >> How much disk space do you have allocated to your paging file? >> >> Hi JW, >> 2 GB memory with AMD dual 3800. >> How do I enable DMA disk transfers? >> Do not know how to see space allocated to paging file. >> I do have defrag scheduled and it says it did it but I ran it last >> night and >> it took a couple hours. But did not see any improvement after that. >> >> I usually see many svchost processes. Does that mean anything. It >> usually does not show any cpu usage for them. > > > -- > smberger |
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| Subject: Re: CPU 50% System idle shows 98% |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 5/14/2008 8:24:03 PM |
| From: smberger [Email Address Protection] |
SURPRISE My cpu usage is down to zero and I don't know why. Here is a clue. I caled the tech line where I bought this pc and he wanted to check the memory. I did not have time and told him I would call back later. Before I caled him I shut down the system and removed the back so I would have access to the motherboard. I called and the line was busy so I turned the PC back on and CPU usage was zero. What does that tel you. Is there a hardware problem waiting to happen again? -- smberger |
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