re: Windows processing speed revisited...
Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 3:02 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by skydaemon
(1 messages posted)
I guess there's a general answer for this. If your cpu is only at say 1%, it may
well mean that cpu speed isn't your bottleneck. There are lots of things that can
be a bottleneck for speed besides cpu. Your applications might be waiting for some
task which is not cpu intensive to complete.
As an example, disk access/io speed, networking speeds, whether it's loading a huge
amount of memory (it only allocates memory so fast you know, if you're loading gigabytes
into memory or something it's going to sit there a while), whether you're caching
memory to disk because you don't have enough ram, or stuff like that. All of these
sorts of things can slow you down.
There are various solutions depending what is wrong, some of which have hardware
solutions. If you are doing a lot of disk io, you can buy hard drives with faster
rpm speeds. If you're caching memory to disk, you can put in more ram. If you don't
have enough temporary space on your drive you can delete some files and make room.
As a starting point, I'd suggest loading task manager, adding extra columns to display
more stats like io etc, and just watching your applications to see what kind of numbers
are moving. The goal is to find out what is pinned or heavily used, disk io, memory
loading, cpu, whatever.
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