CPU usage indicate how much of a workload is being handled by the CPU.
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Media player classic starts at boot up CPU 100% not listed in msconfig. What is going on?
Every time I boot windows, media player classic starts running in the background (no actual MPC window opens) and hogs the CPU at 100% until I kill it. In process explorer the parent is explorer. I ...
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SpeedBit VideoAcceleratorService.exe looping?
This AM I noticed that lsass.exe was consuming a lot of CPU (maybe 30%). Since that's effectively the signon subsystem, I suspected some other program was hitting it hard and indeed found ...
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How to identify what is causing sys% in top?
top on one of hex cores with hyper threading shows the following
Cpu0 : 2.3%us, 58.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 38.2%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 4.7%us, 62.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 31.2%id, 0.7%wa, ...
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Negative impacts of using high CPU And memory for a few seconds?
I built a crawler for my own personal use that queries many pages with curl_multi_exec. It uses 98% CPU and memory for 10 seconds on my laptop. I'm only crawling around a 1000 pages, but I wanted to ...
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How do I find out I have a high cpu activity on my macbook air, before my battery is used up?
I have a Macbook Air. Occasionally the battery runs down very quickly and it's caused by a high cpu process. My problem is I don't know this is happening - there's no loud fan noise, just a quicker ...
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Summary explanation of Windows Diagnostic Report [closed]
This might be very broad and potentially impossible to answer entirely, but it's very important I'm able to understand what everything covered in a Windows Diagnostic Report is telling me.
I've ...
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Intermittent ~100% CPU Usage related to “Headphones” playback device constantly appearing/disappearing
Starting yesterday, at seemingly random intervals my CPU is being pushed to ~100% usage for 3-4 minutes at a time. After some exploration, I think I've pinned it down to a problem with a playback ...
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Why is AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement devouring my CPU?
Once in a while, for not apparent reason my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.7.5, late 2011 model) will ramp up to 65%+ CPU usage by "System", and stay there for upwards of an hour. If left long enough, the ...
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How is the load on a processing unit measured?
I'm wondering about the techniques and mechanical methods (electronic circuits) that are available to CPU or GPU designers when they are concerned with measuring the capacity and utilization of such a ...
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akamai netsession consuming 25 percent of my CPU and it keeps coming back
How to kill Akamai Netsession for good? Windows 7.
How to find out which software installed it?
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System (ACPI.sys) is always using about 15-20% of my CPU
I have a 13" Sony Vaio laptop (model SVS13A1C5E) and I upgraded it to Windows 8 with a fresh install, after upgrading I installed Win8 drivers listed here.
Now I have a problem with the CPU usage (it ...
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Shell script that monitors CPU usage and terminates services with high CPU utilisation
We have a Windows 2003 server where 3 services are running constantly. Sometimes these services consume over 90% CPU. Restarting these services returns normalcy. I need a script/program that will ...
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CPU hitting 100% when flash or game is running after dropping laptop
I have a quad core Lenovo with 8GB memory running windows 7 x64 with NVidia quadro 880
Everything was working great until one day I would be playing a game and the CPU would max out for a few ...
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acrord32.exe cpu usage 24%
my cpu usage reach to 100% and when I run Process explore the process acrord32.exe run twice or more and each one take 24% of cpu usage
But there is no application I run Now . why ?
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Will a CPU upgrade speed up my web browsing? How to tell?
My CPU model is 2 and a half years old now, released Intel Q4'2010. How can I determine if getting a new CPU will improve how fast I surf the Internet, versus getting a better ISP subscription?
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CPU usage doesn't add up
My computer has been acting a little wonky today (it's been running a little slow), so I decided to open up the task manager to look at CPU usage.
Why does the top CPU usage not add up to the total ...
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CPU usage and speed of program
This is for my server. The scenario goes as follows:
Computer A has a faster processor than computer B. They both execute the same program, but Computer A's CPU usage only goes up to 30% while ...
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Task/Services has high CPU, but how to find out what it is doing?
nearly daily some service is starting a task and never finishs. This task uses an entiry cpu core, which results in high fan activity.
Using ProcessExplorer I found out that it might be a service ...
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CPU usage according to lxde applet and task manager is different than top
The CPU usage in top (htop) appears normal but the task manager and lxde CPU applet don't. Here is a screenshot:
This is Lubuntu 12.04
Is this a bug?
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Decompiled DSDT table, looking for fan values, can't locate. table inside
I have the suspicion that my laptop doesn't set it's fan speed to 100% even when the CPU is hot. This is because I can barely hear the fan when the CPU is > 95 degrees or so.
So i'm trying to check ...
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Max CPU on everything
I just reinstalled windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on my desktop PC, and it seems like every program I try to run maxes one of my CPUs! its ridiculous! Every time I load a web page in any browser it maxes a ...
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Opera - How to make it run faster?
I'm using Opera version 12.13 under Windows XP home.
It needs ~50% of my CPU and it takes a few seconds if open or close a tab. How can I make it run faster and if possible with less CPU usage?
I ...
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JSON formatted text file makes CPU jump to 100%
I'm editing a JSON formatted text file in Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB of RAM.
The file is approx. 3 MB large so it's not very big. Anyhow this is making both ...
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How can I use sar to track processor and memory usage?
I'm running some load tests on a application hosted on one of my server and I wanted to track the processor and memory usage over a period of time e.g. 30 minutes.
I've read that I can do this with ...
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HD 1080p .mkv videos don't play smooth. Is it a CPU, GPU, player or OS issue?
I have some .mkv 1080p videos but VLC can't play them smoothly.
If I open the Task Manager, I can see that CPU is at 100%, because VLC uses as much as it can (95% or more).
Then, I wonder
Is it a ...
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Windows 8 not using max CPU speed on heavy operations
On my Windows 8 laptop, whenever I'm doing video transcoding with Handbrake, it seems to limit the CPU usage to 44% and the CPU frequency to 42% or 43% of max allowed.
That probably means the CPU ...
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How to deal with a misbehaving dllhost.exe?
In the last few days, I've been having persistent problems by... something that causes a dllhost.exe process to spawn and consume minutes and minutes of CPU time. Procexp says:
While fascintating, ...
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rundll32.exe : infected examples pushing cpu to %100 . Malware bytes couldnt detect it niether could Win Def how do i fix it [duplicate]
My laptop is almost useless. The rundll32 application is infected with malware. I have tried several malitious software removal tools all for nought.
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Asterisk Has Consistent 100% CPU Load On One Core
http://i.imgur.com/sySQfsH.png
Please note the screenshot. I have an Ubuntu 12.10 box running Asterisk. I ssh'ed into the server the other day to find asterisk running at 100% CPU on one core, and i ...
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Ping vs CPU usage
I’m working on some measurements and the ping results are intriguing me. I tested it in several scenarios and the results are the same: the ping results are better when the CPU load is higher.
The ...
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'top' output baffles me
top - 18:22:21 up 98 days, 23:26, 4 users, load average: 2.73, 2.85, 2.60
Tasks: 210 total, 1 running, 209 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.6%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.7%id, 5.1%wa, ...
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How do I use cpulimit with ImageMagick?
I am converting (using ImageMagick) a directory of image files (using a bash for loop in shell).
I notice that "convert" is taking up a large amount of CPU use (88% and up). However, If I try to ...
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High CPU usage, low load average
I have a virtual private server on a popular web hosting set up. I can see that the load average is very low (around 0.05) while the CPU usage is 100 % almost all the time.
top:
load average: ...
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High CPU usage by the “system” process
I have noticed that from some time my system is freezing and its probably caused by the high CPU usage which is caused by the system process.
All applications I'm running is the Skype, TeamSpeak and ...
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How can I get a program to use slightly less CPU?
There's a program I run all day that does chess analysis. It's causing my computer to run consistently at 100% CPU Usage (According to Windows Task Manager), but despite this my computer seems to run ...
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Low FPS in some games, but hardware not fully used
I just did a little funny experiment in the game/sim "Train Simulator 2013". I normally have good FPS in it (around 30) at full settings.
What I did was make a really, really long train so that the ...
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Dropbox causes xorg to use 100% CPU
For some time, I noticed that my xorg process uses up between 60 and 100% of the CPU (according to top). I also noticed that interactive work becomes sluggish, even on my multi-core i7 processor.
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how can force a prgram to use all of CPU capacity?
I have Windows 7 And a Intel Core-i5 CPU (4Thread)
some programs like Firefox, only use up to maximum 25% of All CPU(only 1 Thread)
And some programs like Winrar, use up to 100% of All CPU
Can ...
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CPU Utilization never crosses 50% Windows 8
I have a Windows 8 RTM Enterprise with VMWare 9 installed.
I run a couple of VM's but as you can see in the image below my CPU usage never crosses ~50% with 4 VMs running. Even if I run like 8 VMs ...
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linux: per-process monitor, every 10 minutes, with history access
I really didn't know a better way to ask my question, hence you get a horribly named question.
I will explain what i want to do, maybe that will help you help me.
I would like to have my linux ...
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Limiting I/O activity for a specific process - Linux
I run a convert *.tif bla.pdf command sometimes with say 60 images. Now this renders my computer unusable until it finishes.
I tried using nice and ionice but it did not help much.
Is there a way to ...
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Why does loading small images eat CPU time?
I noticed that (on my Ubuntu, and also on other Linux distributions, e.g., Debian) small animated images eat CPU time. When I open multiple Firefox tabs, the CPU raises to 100% and it's because of ...
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IPHLPSVC High CPU in Windows 8 x64
I was experiencing consistent high CPU usage in Windows 8 Pro x64. The cause was svchost running at a constant 25% CPU, even at idle. I checked the services that the svchost was running, and toggled ...
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VMware Fusion Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server - Soft Lockup CPU Stuck
I have a strange Stuck Problem with VMware Fusion and Ubuntu 12.04 as Guest System.
On High Loaded process the System sticks with "Soft Lockup CPU Stuck" and I have to reboot the VM. The Same System ...
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Display CPU usage separately (without root privileges)
I need to display the CPU usage for each processing core on a single shared-memory 12-core (SMP) machine. I don't have access to install htop, else I would simply use that. I don't need fancy graphs ...
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Why won't Windows use the other CPU cores?
In Windows Task Manager the Performance tab shows the first CPU maxed out, the other 7 just idling along with the occasional spike. What gives?
More info:
I've got 8GB and only 4.5GB are being used. ...
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Windows Defender high CPU when idle
I noticed on my MacBook Pro from 2011 with Windows 8 that the fans start spinning when I leave my laptop idle for a while.
I figured that it is Windows Defender which seems to be running. Is it ...
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Why is the clock speed readout greater than the maximum?
(click for full-size image)
What is this madness?
(I'm aware that the top number refers to the non-Turbo Boosted clock speed, but what of the others?)
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Is there a program that can pause another program?
Here is whats bothering me. For example, I play two games, Assassins Creed and MW3. When my friends call me to play MW3 I minimise Assassins Creed to go and play MW3. But Assassins Creed still ...
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What could cause the CPU Maximum Frequency to dip to 0% for several seconds?
I am testing a .NET application that has advanced GUI capabilities. One specific action takes a long time to complete, up to 5 seconds. While watching the standard Windows Resource Monitor, I noticed ...
