high CPU load

[Eric S. Johansson]

Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
> My cygwin/x server processes are at 0% when not used.
> They are near 0% even when xwin is receiving lots of screen update from the
> solaris client running SAS.

that's impressive.  Before this problem started if I start getting any 
number of updates, the CPU load would climb into the 20% range.  now, it 
sits at 70% no matter what.
> 
> My last cygwin update was two weeks ago.
> When was your last update and what were your updates?
>  (so that I know what to avoid updating).

beats the heck out of me.  I updated two days ago (24th) and I was just 
doing a blanket update of everything.  I think the previous update was 
somewhere in early to mid July.

what is really frustrating is that I don't know when the problem 
started.  I use speech recognition and that usually consumes 80% of the 
CPU whenever I'm talking.  By the way, it doesn't matter how fast the 
CPU, speech recognition always consumes 80% of what ever is available.

then I noticed when using X, my recognition accuracy was going down and 
the time to get some text from the recognizer was going up.  That's what 
I investigated and found that X11 was consuming 60 to 70% of the CPU at 
idle.  Unfortunately, the best I have to go on is flaky memory because I 
was distracted doing another project at the time.  My best guess says 
that it was sometime in the past two weeks that things went south.

I know I did some updates from Microsoft in that time but I don't 
directly associate the problems with X and these updates.

I'm really sorry about being so vague but it's the best information I have.

> I am using XP/Pro on Dell Latitude P4 "centrino"(whatever is that?),
> where my xwin/wmaker is displayed on an external 2nd monitor at 1792x1344.
> Are you running wmaker, KDE or native ms windows manager?

native ms window manager.

> 
> I had similar problems of high cpu before but I found that my anti-virus s/w
> was trying to check everything netbeans and cygwin was doing. I forgot how I
> took care of that. I did not shut any anti-virus process down.

well I don't run any antivirus on the system because it inevitably 
interferes with speech recognition accuracy.  I occasionally run scans 
but it's really a pita

the Windows firewall is completely turned off as well.

I fear solving this problem may involve erasing the disk and 
reinstalling everything from windows on up.  ugh.

---eric


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