[techtalk] Re: Hardware Interrupts?

  • From: Paul Ferguson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:31:38 +0000

Hi Greg,

Greg Webb wrote:

My machine here was running pretty slowly and very unsteadily (sound was not pretty!), even after a clean boot - fired up Process Explorer and it's claiming 'Hardware Interrupts' are using anything up to 85% CPU time. Any ideas what's gone wrong?

Some info here:
http://frazzleddad.blogspot.com/2006/03/lousy-performance-high-hardware.html

Seems like IDE drivers are very often the cause of this issue

Cheers
Paul


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