Thanks and you were right - the disk was fragmented after the new install of
Windows
Kind regards, James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Web Kracked" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: [users] OOo hogging CPU.?
"defrag is not a problem"????
Last time I installed Windows (Win 2000/pro), after
I installed the OS and all the patches, etc., the
disk was really fragged and needed defragging badly.
It was worse when I installed XP the last time.
So, defragging is needed every time you do any install.
James Elliott wrote:
Hi Pierre and Web Kracked
When Task Manage says that soffice.bin is using 90% of CPU surely that
means that soffice.bin is using 90% of CPU, and some other hidden or
background process is not using part of the 90%?.
I recently had to reinstall Windows, so disk fragmentation is not a
problem and I have done all the clean-up tuen-up tasks anyway. Maybe the
default drivers in Windows do not include the best motherboard/chipset,
memory, and hard drive drivers?
Thanks for the suggestion - I will have a look at Process Explorer.
Many thanks, James
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [users] OOo hogging CPU.?
James Elliott wrote:
Suspecting some program was running in the background and hogging
resources I made sure my AVG virus scanner was not running and then
looked at Windows Task Manager to see what processes were running.
Sure enough, the System Idle process was varying from 98% down to 13%
when some process was hogging the CPU. By watching for a few moments I
determined that it was soffice.bin that was intermittently taking up to
90% of the CPU's attention ... and this was when I wasn't even using
Writer, just had it on the screen, but had not typed a character for a
few minutes.
Hi James,
I had something similar a while back, but eventually traced excessive
CPU usage back to a hard disk hardware problem with the help of Process
Explorer. You might want to try it just to make sure it is OOo.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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Pierre
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civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They
said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than
President of the United States forever." Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
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