So what are you monitoring with splunk? Do you have AV kicking off at that time that's driving splunk crazy? As Carl says, you've identified a potential problem. Test the unwritten hypothesis, uninstall splunk and see what happens.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Jim Dandy <[email protected]>wrote: > My Windows 7 laptop has suddenly gotten into a funk where it pegs at 100% > CPU utilization. For the last 3 days at about 12:30 it all of a sudden gets > really slow. Reboot the system and it’s still slow. Today it got past the > 12:30 death zone and made it all the way until 4:00. The slowness spans > reboots and it seems to take a couple of hours for it to recover. If you > look at the processes running in task manager there doesn’t seem to be a > common process that is chewing up CPU time but tasks that shouldn’t take all > that much cpu time can be shown to use a lot. For example, task manager can > use 50% of the CPU. One thing that I’ve noticed is, when the system is > slow, there have always been a bunch of splunk processes running > (splunkd.exe, splunk-regmon.exe, splunk-wmi.exe, splunk-optimize.exe, > splunk-admon.exe). Splunkd can be using anywhere from 0 to 50% of the CPU. > The other splunks mostly 0%. There are also a bunch of svchost .exe > processes running. > > > > I’m running Windows 7 64-bit. Closing applications doesn’t reduce the CPU > utilization. > > > > Does anyone know what might be causing this? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Curt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
