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Re: high CPU load
Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
My cygwin/x server processes are at 0% when not used.
They are near 0% even when xwin is receiving lots of screen update from the
solaris client running SAS.
that's impressive. Before this problem started if I start getting any
number of updates, the CPU load would climb into the 20% range. now, it
sits at 70% no matter what.
My last cygwin update was two weeks ago.
When was your last update and what were your updates?
(so that I know what to avoid updating).
beats the heck out of me. I updated two days ago (24th) and I was just
doing a blanket update of everything. I think the previous update was
somewhere in early to mid July.
what is really frustrating is that I don't know when the problem
started. I use speech recognition and that usually consumes 80% of the
CPU whenever I'm talking. By the way, it doesn't matter how fast the
CPU, speech recognition always consumes 80% of what ever is available.
then I noticed when using X, my recognition accuracy was going down and
the time to get some text from the recognizer was going up. That's what
I investigated and found that X11 was consuming 60 to 70% of the CPU at
idle. Unfortunately, the best I have to go on is flaky memory because I
was distracted doing another project at the time. My best guess says
that it was sometime in the past two weeks that things went south.
I know I did some updates from Microsoft in that time but I don't
directly associate the problems with X and these updates.
I'm really sorry about being so vague but it's the best information I have.
I am using XP/Pro on Dell Latitude P4 "centrino"(whatever is that?),
where my xwin/wmaker is displayed on an external 2nd monitor at 1792x1344.
Are you running wmaker, KDE or native ms windows manager?
native ms window manager.
I had similar problems of high cpu before but I found that my anti-virus s/w
was trying to check everything netbeans and cygwin was doing. I forgot how I
took care of that. I did not shut any anti-virus process down.
well I don't run any antivirus on the system because it inevitably
interferes with speech recognition accuracy. I occasionally run scans
but it's really a pita
the Windows firewall is completely turned off as well.
I fear solving this problem may involve erasing the disk and
reinstalling everything from windows on up. ugh.
---eric
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