[pchelpers] Re: CPU


    That is pretty interesting. Just checked it on my machine 
and it it basically sitting at 99% idle here too.
    Wondering if Don Bieber means RAM usage or CPU usage?

    Cy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "DonBieber@xxxxxxx" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: CPU


>
> Hi DonBieber,
>
> Sunday, October 31, 2004, 5:29:30 PM, you wrote:
> DIc> and start over, I'll pose the question to the experts. My 
> CPU is pegged
> DIc> at 100% most of the time now, it didn't seem to be like 
> this before.
> DIc> Everything move at a snails pace now and it really slows 
> down > How are you determining the CPU usage??
>
> If you hit Ctrl-shift-ESC, Windows Task Manager will open, and 
> you can
> go to the Processes tab to see exactly how much CPU time each 
> process
> is using. Click on the title of the CPU column to sort by CPU 
> usage.
> Normally, "System Idle Process" should have about 97-99% of 
> the CPU
> usage; i.e., the system isn't doing anything.
>
> A 233Mhz will run fine for most purposes as long as it has 
> plenty of
> memory. 256M should be tolerable, although more might help. It 
> also
> depends upon what you're doing.  If it was working fine 
> before, then
> that's probably not your problem.
>
> --Scott.
>
>
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