100% Cpu

[wolfman10_2000]

My Computer always and constantly stays at 100% CPU Usage.
If its a virus are there any steps on getting rid of it?
I have Norton but it does'nt say anything on a full system scan


Thanks



-Mike

[wolfman10_2000]

Also I want to add that I have 512 megs of ram and only 221 is availible

[mogadishu]

if 221 is available, then 100% isnt in use. i assume your taking about ram?

[Somebody1234]

No. He is talking about CPU usage. Have you tried to restart your PC?

[3rd gen noob]

what are you doing with it?

:blink:

are you using it for anything, or is sitting idle?

check task manager for running processes and see what exactly is using up your cpu power

[wolfman10_2000]

I dont know
It just stays at 100% CPU Usage

but I also have low RAM

I checked all the processes and they look normal.

The computer dont look or run as if its in 100% maybe its a bug......


Thanks alot anyways


-Mike

[3RA1N1AC]

what is your CPU speed? the last few Kazaa releases seem to just be real resource hogs. with a 1ghz CPU, K-Lite was using 90% or more... and now that i upgraded to 2ghz, it hangs around 40%-50%.

if it's possible to find it, you might wanna try digging up a Kazaa Lite version from 6 months ago (or older) and see how it does.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@6 August 2003 - 06:23
and now that i upgraded to 2ghz, it hangs around 40%-50%.

i'm a little puzzled by this...

i have an athlon 2700 (2.17GHz clock) and 512 meg of ram

when i use kazaa (version 2.4.0), with approx 2 active downloads and 1 active upload, my cpu usage is normally between 1 and 3%

the highest i've seen was 8 i think

:blink:

why is there such a range in the values of cpu usage?

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Look in the task manager and see what process is using the cpu.

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@5 August 2003 - 22:02
when i use kazaa (version 2.4.0), with approx 2 active downloads and 1 active upload, my cpu usage is normally between 1 and 3%

the highest i've seen was 8 i think
it's prolly to do with how many transfers you've got going simultaneously, as well.

maybe if you have a lot of large files transferring, the CPU usage goes through the roof. but for any program to constantly be going at 90-100%, that's still a bit excessive. it would be understandable if you were doing audio/video editing and it needed that kind of power to process the data... but it's just a fileshare program...

[3RA1N1AC]

hmm, sorry, i assumed this was a K-Lite question since it's on the K-Lite forum... but the original post doesn't say that any specific program is causing the high CPU usage.

dunno what to tell you, then. there are prolly a lot of things that could be causing this. you might wanna go through your services and disable some of the stuff that you don't need. or it may just be a bug in the Task Manager, if your PC isn't acting any slower than normal...

[Wolfmight]

probably spyware or a resource hacker.

[wolfman10_2000]

thanks for the comments Ill guess I'll have to live with it becuase if I reformat now then it would be my 85th time doing it in 1 year :D




Thanks alot



-Mike

[slickd420]

Go to symantic.com and get the online virus scan just in case.

[aintgottime]

It could be two programs that are both running at the same time not responding very well together. I use to find when I ran kazaa and pc-cillin i couldnt do anything else with the pc, cpu usage was at 100% all the way through the download. Try to see if there is anything like that causing you the problem.

[Damnatory]

Also, check to make sure you didn't leave K-lite running its "automatically search for more sources" action. It has a tendency to take all bandwidth availiable after a few minutes of searching.

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by Damnatory@19 August 2003 - 13:31
Also, check to make sure you didn't leave K-lite running its "automatically search for more sources" action. It has a tendency to take all bandwidth availiable after a few minutes of searching.
yeah, I wouldnt suggest reformatting yet, you might not need to.

[Evil Gemini]

About your ram problem it could be that your moboard doesnt accept ne thing higher than 512. Im not sure about the cpu but i remember having that same problem it was actually something in the bios :unsure: Is it running slugish or normal ?? It might be reporting 100% usage but it really isnt.

[Xanex]

How many downloads do yo have either paused/queued/more sources/remotely queued???

any more than 50 and my pc decides to use 100% cpu.

Try moving some of the .dat files to another folder inside ur shared folder. this should help.

[bob_the_alien]

I'm using XP Pro and on my first installation of it, it had this problem,
it would stay using 100% of the cpu all the time,
so I just started ending processes in taskmanager,
and I discovered that Explorer was the problem,
when explorer wasn't running, it was fine,
but as soon as explorer started 100% was used again.
I had to reinstall windows to solve the problem.

You might have a similar problem, I know it sucked for me.

[Rip The Jacker]

Use the task manager to see what process is taking up all your CPU resources, then kill that process.

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/task.jpg

Kazaa Lite only uses 5% resources on mine... :blink:

[zapjb]

Look op (original poster) you're not telling us sh*t (no data). Are we supposed to guess? It's not magic you know. ;)