Vista - CPU Utilization of 35% + All of the time

I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
turned off off-line files.

It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.

Thoughts?

Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
Which process is the bad one?


"bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> turned off off-line files.
>
> It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
>
> Thoughts?

I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
my system would say that it is being utilized.

When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.


--
Bob


"Martin Stein" wrote:

> Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> Which process is the bad one?
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-C370417FAEC5@microsoft.com...
> >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > turned off off-line files.
> >
> > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>

Any ideas on how to find out what is utilizing my second CPU at 70%?
--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
> between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
> utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
> second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
> total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
> my system would say that it is being utilized.
>
> When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
> Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
> much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
> figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.
>
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Martin Stein" wrote:
>
> > Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> > Which process is the bad one?
> >
> >
> > "bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> > newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-C370417FAEC5@microsoft.com...
> > >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > > turned off off-line files.
> > >
> > > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >

Can anyone with a dual core let me know if the CPU Usage History graphs seem
to be correct for both cores?

--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> Any ideas on how to find out what is utilizing my second CPU at 70%?
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" wrote:
>
> > I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
> > between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
> > utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
> > second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
> > total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
> > my system would say that it is being utilized.
> >
> > When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
> > Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
> > much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
> > figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "Martin Stein" wrote:
> >
> > > Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> > > Which process is the bad one?
> > >
> > >
> > > "bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> > > newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-C370417FAEC5@microsoft.com...
> > > >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > > > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > > > turned off off-line files.
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > > > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >

I set up a test user and disconnected all devices. Basically just a stand
alone PC. After the indexer completed, there was nothing running that I
could see other than some basic processes. No network activity (obviously)
and no writing to disk other than the Resource Monitor. Still it appears
that 75% of one of the cores is being utilized by a process that isn't listed.

Thoughts?
--
Bob


"bobneedshelp" wrote:

> Can anyone with a dual core let me know if the CPU Usage History graphs seem
> to be correct for both cores?
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on how to find out what is utilizing my second CPU at 70%?
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "bobneedshelp" wrote:
> >
> > > I tried that. Basically, it shows the System Idle Process always being
> > > between 95%-97%. There are 2 CPU graphs. 1 graph shows the 1-5% CPU
> > > utilization. The other graph shows 70% utilization. I don't know what the
> > > second core is doing but it appears busy on the CPU Usage History graph. The
> > > total CPU Usage looks to be 30-35% busy all of the time. The performance of
> > > my system would say that it is being utilized.
> > >
> > > When I use the Resource Monitor, it doesn't help answer the question either.
> > > Other than seeing some disk activity for the Resource monitor, I don't see
> > > much going on other than the constant CPU utilization. It doesn't help me
> > > figure out why the second core is being utilized like this.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > > "Martin Stein" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Try to click on 'show processes from all users' below in the processes tab.
> > > > Which process is the bad one?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> > > > newsC11CE27-32B1-4827-AD48-C370417FAEC5@microsoft.com...
> > > > >I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz. One of the
> > > > > cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time. I've
> > > > > turned off off-line files.
> > > > >
> > > > > It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU. It looks
> > > > > like in the task manager that I am only using the 3%.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > >

Tried showing processes from all users?

I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
Maybe this is a dual core issue?

--
Bob


"Toby Broom" wrote:

> Tried showing processes from all users?
>

The 100% is across both core so it will look less than the actual for that
core.

After this I say use Performance monitor, Form the process group add % User
Time <All Instances>

you can the go through 1-by-1 looking for thing with high utilization.



"bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:8829F200-E44D-41E2-9415-3C01DE8F0716@microsoft.com...
>I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> Maybe this is a dual core issue?
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Toby Broom" wrote:
>
>> Tried showing processes from all users?
>>

Process (% User Time) is 3% or less.

Processor (% Processor Time) is 30-35% (Instance = _Total).

I'm not familiar with the Performance Monitor. What do I look at next? It
doesn't look like any of the Processes consume much of the CPU. It looks
like the Total Processor time is high however.

--
Bob


"Toby Broom" wrote:

> The 100% is across both core so it will look less than the actual for that
> core.
>
> After this I say use Performance monitor, Form the process group add % User
> Time <All Instances>
>
> you can the go through 1-by-1 looking for thing with high utilization.
>
>
>
> "bobneedshelp" <bobneedshelp@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:8829F200-E44D-41E2-9415-3C01DE8F0716@microsoft.com...
> >I tried showing processes from all users. It doesn't appear to show the
> > second core utilization it only looks like it is showing the first core.
> > Maybe this is a dual core issue?
> >
> > --
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > "Toby Broom" wrote:
> >
> >> Tried showing processes from all users?
> >>
>