re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 11:40 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
Check out my last post to MP. Follow the link on threading. If you understand basic
computer and advanced issues on computer technology, it may answer some questions
on what you are experiencing with SF. I also use some Sonic Foundry programs and
find that they take much more computing power than the stated minimum to fuction
correctly and work best on an SMP machine. Setting the page file to a static setting
helps as it reduces the load on the processor. It is an indication that a slower
processor gets "overloaded" or bottlenecks in the system starve the processor. To
bad that you don't have an SMP machine with double the RAM. It would be a night
and day difference. I have an old P2-300 (512 mb RAM) MX 400 video SMP XP Pro machine
that runs the Sonic Foundry programs amazingly well. It really gets messy sometimes
trying to find problems but there are tools to find and determine what needs to be
done in a particular machine. Overall, I still have the best stable performance
on my BX chipset. I've worked on and had all kinds of problems on the newer chipsets
and especially ones from VIA. Most of the time, it is software causing the problems,
but hardware can be at fault depending on the vendor and specs. C K
On Monday, November 4, 2002 at 10:09 pm, The Mish wrote:
>Here's another one:
>Iwill BD100
>PII 400MHz
>128MB RAM
>Matrox Productiva G100
>SoundBlaster 64 PCI
>running Windows XP.
>
>For me, the problem only occurs when I run Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 4.5d or 4.5h.
>
>
>I don't have any other versions to test it with.
>
>In addition, a computer at my work:
>Pentium Pro 180 (!)
>196MB RAM
>running Win2K
>(other specs I don't remember)
>
>also exhibits the the problem ONLY when running Sound Forge. Reinstalling Win2K
>helped for awhile, only to have the problem occur again a time later. I reinstalled
>the OS again... So far it works.
>
>It always seemed to me to be more of a software problem rather than something directly
>linked to the hardware, but I could be wrong.
>
>-The Mish
>
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