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Old 10-04-2006   #6 (permalink)
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RE: Constant CPU Usage

Just one question how do you check your system logs?
My CPU useage is pretty high at times.
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Thank you
astro999


"db_cooper1950" wrote:

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> "Homer of Nac" wrote:
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> > Check your system logs. I had a similar issue and was able to track it to a
> > faulty NIC driver (Marvel Yukon). The driver installed OK, but was generating
> > hundreds of error messages a minute. Once I disabled it, CPU useage droped to
> > 5% or less when I was idle. I am on AMD 64 X2 4200 with 4 gigs of ram. VIA
> > chipset.

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> Homer,
> Thank you, I had called myself checking the event logs but not thoroughly
> enough, as you pointed out I found that a program was dumping silent errors
> very often. Between the errors and the log entries it was really keeping the
> system busy.

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