If it's always around the same time, a couple of things to consider. What time do you have set for OS and software updates to run? Do you have an Anti-Virus installed and if so, what time is it set to do a scan?
Both of the above items will defer to a person logged in as they are meant to run in the background. For a decent piece of software to control process affinity, take a look at: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html. You might also post up what this machine is serving to clients. Email, web, fileserver... Link -----Original Message----- From: Scott Tuttle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds] CPU - System Process Issues - Dual Proc System I have a server it's a dual proc AMD system. I have a weird problem. I do not know what is causing it... Obviously that is why I am here.. Just curious if anyone else has seen this and has any ideas what might be going on. If I connect to the Windows Server with Remote Desktop it all is fine. As soon as I disconnect the pings start to rise on the hlds servers. The "System" process pegs one of the CPUs. All of the servers I have bound to the main CPU start to ping out and lag. When I connect back to the Windows Server with Remote Desktop eventually the System process goes back to normal. I have disabled all non-essential services I believe. It is weird that this just happens right as I disconnect from remote desktop. I was thinking maybe it was some type of back door or something on the server. However, I see no additional bandwidth usage at that time. Everything network wise looks reasonable. I don't know how to start trying to find out what specific process that is being ran by the "System" process as I know it does a lot of work on behalf of the services. This is why I went through and disabled non-essential services. I wish I could disable more but as the server is remote I don't want to accidently cut myself off from being able to use remote desktop. This appears to happen each night around 1am. But I cannot verify this as I normally am not up this late playing on the server. It eventually passes from what I am told and then it goes back to normal. My scheduled tasks are set to run at around 5am so it is not some scheduled process causing the problems. Does anyone have any idea? I know this really is not a hlds issue so please forgive me. But I just though you guys would have an idea of what might be going on. I already ran spybot search and destroy and adaware on the server. I am at a loss to try to figure out what is going on. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Scott _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
