CPU #2

[Chucky Cheese]

Hi all,

ever since i installed the latest beta driver into win2k rc2(2128) my second cpu is always at approx 40%, even now as i'm typing this post with nothing else running. i don't have a clue as to why, i do know that this was not the case before i installed the new beta drivers(5.0.007).

i have noticed that i have 2 instances of a process called "svchost.exe" running, one is using 6k and the other is using 2.2k. power desk is using 2.3k. anyways i'm not having any real problems that i wouldn't expect from beta drivers and a beta os, i was just curious if anybody has any idea.

Platform Configuration:

Motherboard: AMI MegaRUM II,dual 600Mhz PIII processors(installed), each with a 32/512 Cache configuration. 512 Mb of PC100, 8ns memory. Symbios Logic 53C896 U2W SCSI controllers. Intel 443GX Xeon chipset.

SCSI I/O:

Channel 1(LVD/U2): 4 Seagate LVD Cheetah 18LP, ST39103LW Ultra2 Wide SCSI-3 hard Drives, each with 1024k cache.

Channel 2(SE): JAZ 2GB internal, Plex-Writer 8/20, Pioneer DVD-303s ultra-scsi DVD reader and 2 UltraPlex-Wide 17/40 speed CD-ROM Dives.

USB: USB Zip Drive, Dual Strike game controller

Networking: The network adapter is a 3Com 3C509B-TX PCI adapter and a US Robotics Courier V.Everything 33.6/28.8/x2/V.90 internal ISA modem.

Video: Matrox G400 Max with Dual Head. The primary display is a Panasonic PanaSync E21, .25-dot pitch, 20" viewable; the secondary display is a Viewsonic flat panel display model VP150.

Multi-media: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live PCI Bus Mastering sound card. Speaker system are the Cambridge Works FPS2000
Digital speaker system.



[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 08 December 1999).]

[Dyre]

Nice system! Uhh i have no idea, i just thought i should tell you how awesome that system is!

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PIII 450 @ 464
generic BX6 motherboard
G400 MAX : )
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
64 megs PC100 RAM
Intel 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
DiamondMAX 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's
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[Peter555]

CC,
My system is somewhat like yours. After the RC2 update and installing the latest G400(max) drivers i haven't seen any unusual processor usage. Idle is about 0% sometimes 1-2. Did the RC2 upgrade change around your swapfile settings? Some strange stuff happened here and i manually reset it to the drive i wanted it on and set it to a fixed size.
You can use the performance monitor to list out the CPU usage for each thread running on your system. Then you can get an idea of what/where the problem is. Also check out the interrupts per second for each CPU they should each be less than about 150 per second at idle.
One time i had a very bad optical connection (at the scource not the PC) to my SB Live. It was using over 50% CPU usage but nothing showed up in the task list. Tracked it down with the PerfMon.

Good Luck

[Guru]

Hmmmm!!! Your problem is that the PIII processor is not compatible with the GX chipset you can not even get the processor to fit in the slot!!!!!

[Chucky Cheese]

thanks for the compliments on my system!!!

peter555...scsi id 0 is configured for a dual-boot between win98se and win2k, all the other drives are fat32. my swap file didn't change and my registry is 4.1 megs. i had to uninstall the performance counters because they were causing errors. i posted a topic on this bbs called "screwy irqs", because my irqs for some of my hardware are real high, like 128 for the sblive...etc.

anyways, thanks for the suggestions...

chucky

[jsb]

Guru. go to http://www.ami.com/
its a dual P3 mobo usin GX chip.
Stefan

[turbodog2]

Task manager should show you which process is the CPU hog.

I also have a 2 CPU now running build 2183 (but I did run 2128 for a while), but I've never had any processes hogging the CPU.

[Ghydda]

Likewise, COOL SYSTEM.

Sorry, no help here either

Ghydda, still not convinced that PIII is the way to just yet...

[Guru]

Sorry!

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PIII450@558, ABIT BX6-2, 256RAM, G400MAX, SBLIVE

[Buuri]

Does anyone know about those svchost.exes anyway?
I have 2 of them runnin' myself, both taking about 2-3MB.

Oh, I just realized it's probably "service host" running services like network protocols etc. in the backround.
(A new svchost.exe for every service; I got to that by searching the registry)

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[This message has been edited by Buuri (edited 09 December 1999).]

[Chucky Cheese]

hey burri,

if that was the case then there would be a lot more than 2 instances of it. i thought that the "services" applet in the administration folder in control panel was how services were managed. as far as i know power desk does not run as a service, and i don't remember if it was in the process list before i installed the new beta drivers.

one last thing, i am not able to set processor affinity in this build of win2k, i hope that the final release has this. is there a way that i can view what process is running on what cpu??

chucky


[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 09 December 1999).]

[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 09 December 1999).]

[Strafe]

Check with your motherboard MFG. I have an Asus P2B-DS. One of the processors was always at 50%. The problem is with ACPI. I had two choices, 1) reinstall Windows 2000 and force a non-ACPI kernel (by pressing F5 when it asks if you have to load any special drivers) or 2) send the board back to Asus to have some resistors modified.

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Dual P3-450@504 - Asus P2B-DS - 128MB PC100 - Matrox G400Max - Sony 21" GDM-500PS - Diamond MX300 - 9.1GB Seagate Cheetah (2nd gen) - Pioneer 6X DVD - 3Com 10/100 - Hauppauge Win-TV Theater - A partridge in a pear tree =)

[Peter555]

CC,
Something went wrong somewhere with your RC2 install. My install was a clean one. Did you upgrade from a prior release? On my system i can set processor affinity from the task manager, just like in NT4.0.
As far as the interrputs go, the high numbers are normal with a Dual Proc system. Not to worry. There is a completely different way of handling interrupts in a DP system and NT reports things differently. If i understand correctly there are 24 interrupts total. The old 16 from the ISA/AT legacy plus "INT-A thru INT-D" for the PCI bus, plus a few more to hook things together, or something like that.