I hardly ever shut off my computer, and Virtual XP is minimized on the Taskbar if I'm not using it at the moment. I've noticed that after a day or two, VPC starts consuming a lot of CPU cycles. I've got a quad-core AMD 955, running at 3.2 GHz, and VPC was using 36% of the total CPU with activity on all 4 cores. Sometimes it will go almost to 100%. Restarting VPC stops this behavior.

Has anyone else seen this?

Tom Mason

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:25:48 -0800, "Tom Mason" <masonth@newsgroup>
wrote:

>I hardly ever shut off my computer, and Virtual XP is minimized on the Taskbar if I'm not using it at the moment. I've noticed that after a day or two, VPC starts consuming a lot of CPU cycles. I've got a quad-core AMD 955, running at 3.2 GHz, and VPC was using 36% of the total CPU with activity on all 4 cores. Sometimes it will go almost to 100%. Restarting VPC stops this behavior.
>
>Has anyone else seen this?
>
>Tom Mason

Host operating system???
Which version of VPC???

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Hi Tom,

I personally would exclude the vpc.exe and the VHD/AVHD/BIN from realtime AV scan and monitor your system again.
had already seen simular cases but only with Hyper-V where also MS had published KB articles which are discussing this.

Else, if this is a "important" client system, you could dump the process and analyze it by yourself (Windows Debugger) or sent it to MS support services.

Regards
Ramazan

"Tom Mason" <masonth@newsgroup> wrote in message news:ORY5VSAuKHA.732@newsgroup
I hardly ever shut off my computer, and Virtual XP is minimized on the Taskbar if I'm not using it at the moment. I've noticed that after a day or two, VPC starts consuming a lot of CPU cycles. I've got a quad-core AMD 955, running at 3.2 GHz, and VPC was using 36% of the total CPU with activity on all 4 cores. Sometimes it will go almost to 100%. Restarting VPC stops this behavior.

Has anyone else seen this?

Tom Mason

Bo,

Windows 7 Ultimate, Build 7600
vpc.exe version 6.1.7600.16393

Tom
"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@newsgroup> wrote in message news:745ko5tojok99nhka20b2vggntkel8lp3a@newsgroup
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:25:48 -0800, "Tom Mason" <masonth@newsgroup>
wrote:

>I hardly ever shut off my computer, and Virtual XP is minimized on the Taskbar if I'm not using it at the moment. I've noticed that after a day or two, VPC starts consuming a lot of CPU cycles. I've got a quad-core AMD 955, running at 3.2 GHz, and VPC was using 36% of the total CPU with activity on all 4 cores. Sometimes it will go almost to 100%. Restarting VPC stops this behavior.
>
>Has anyone else seen this?
>
>Tom Mason

Host operating system???
Which version of VPC???

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

I am having the same issues with the AMC Phenom 9950 Quad-Core Proc 2.6Ghz
and 4GB RAM.

This is driving me nuts. It makes XP just about unusable.

"RCan" wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I personally would exclude the vpc.exe and the VHD/AVHD/BIN from realtime AV scan and monitor your system again.
> had already seen simular cases but only with Hyper-V where also MS had published KB articles which are discussing this.
>
> Else, if this is a "important" client system, you could dump the process and analyze it by yourself (Windows Debugger) or sent it to MS support services.
>
> Regards
> Ramazan
>
> "Tom Mason" <masonth@newsgroup> wrote in message news:ORY5VSAuKHA.732@newsgroup
> I hardly ever shut off my computer, and Virtual XP is minimized on the Taskbar if I'm not using it at the moment. I've noticed that after a day or two, VPC starts consuming a lot of CPU cycles. I've got a quad-core AMD 955, running at 3.2 GHz, and VPC was using 36% of the total CPU with activity on all 4 cores. Sometimes it will go almost to 100%. Restarting VPC stops this behavior.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Tom Mason