Tracking Down Resource Hogs?
- From: "(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:37:49 -0400
One of my PCs starts up in a reasonable time and once everything settles down,
about 180 megs of memory are in use.
The other, however, takes forever to boot up. During the lengthy boot process,
the desktop responds erratically to mouse clicks (icons can be selected and
dragged, but not dropped), and when the boot is complete almost 500 megs of
memory are being used.
I've got a couple of images squirreled away, but I've tried reverting once and
it doesn't seem to have helped any.
TaskManager doesn't show much at all during this period - in terms of what
processes are taking what percent of memory/CPU cycles... it all seems tb in
"System Idle..".
My initial reaction is to take a deep breath, don't plan on getting anything
done for the next day or so, and rebuild my system from scratch.
But almost anything would take less man hours than that.
Can anybody suggest a strategy for finding the resource hogs?
I guess the no-brainer is to uninstall everything that automatically starts at
boot time and then re-install one-by-one looking for the performance hit.
Is there anything else? Some utility maybe?
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PeteCresswell
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