[Ham-Computers] RE: Windows task manager

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

Aaron CPU usage is at 100% and PF usage is at 305MB.

iexplorer 81 under the CPU column.

I hope I'm looking at the right stuff.
The columns I have under processes are the following.

Applications, User name, CPU, Mem usage.

On the performance section here's what I got.

Total Committ---312,304
Peak Committ---342,600
Total physical memory 522,736

I hope this helps, Aaron.

All this is totally new to me, so pardon if I seem totally confused.

Brian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: Windows task manager


Hi Brian,

We're looking for CPU utilization, not RAM.  In the Task Manager, if you 
don't have a column called "CPU", then you'll need to add it.  Click on 
"View" -> "Select Columns".  Then place a tick in the "CPU Usage" checkbox.

Now, click on the CPU column header to sort by CPU utilization.  Each click 
changes the sort order ("high to low" vs "low to high").  The list will 
change every second as apps use background CPU cycles.  But the one with the 
highest utilization should stay pretty steady.  On a system running "idle", 
"System Idle Process" should command >97%.  If you have an app actively 
processing something, then that app should show up on top (or near the top). 
Post any app that's constantly using >10% CPU - that will help identify 
what's going on.

While I'm at it, let's check a couple more things.  On the "performance" 
tab, post the following items:

  Total Commit Charge
  Peak Commit Charge
  Total Physical Memory

Just curious what your memory resource utilization is.

BTW, if any of the SVCHOST.EXE instances are hogging up CPU cycles, then 
we'll also need to use  a different utility to find out which hosted service 
is causing the problem.  There's also a couple of MS patches that fix 
specific problems with SVCHOST.EXE, but these are very specific and 
shouldn't be applied arbitrarily.


73,

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Windows task manager

avgrsx.exe 48,972
explorer.exe 24, 104
svchost.exe 21,868
msimn.exe 19.876
iexplorer.exe 11,292
vws.exe that's Virtual weather station for those that don't know, 11,328

Thats all the ones that are above 11, 000k

Any ideas.

Thanks,
Brian




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Windows task manager


> No, it's not normal to have 100% usage.  Check the processes to see which
> one of them is taking the most resources.  You can sort by CPU at the top
> of the screen.
>
> Let us know which process it is.  If there's a checkbox for show processes
> from all users, check it.
>
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