Re: Process explorer help please: SOLVED

jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2 May, 17:10, Gerard Verhoef <Gerard_Verh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gerard Verhoef wrote:
Windows Task Managers shows that the system process takes up 80+ % of
the CPU-time. I read on several internet sites that a program called
"process explorer" is able to analyze the processes and threads the cpu
is working on. So I ran this utility.
I have a seemingly stupid question:
The process tree starts with the system Idle process as a root. One of
the branches atarts with the system process. In the CPU column it says
that system is talking up say 70.32 CPU (I interpret that as 70.32%).
The system branch splits up in sub branches. Some of the processes
mentioned there also have a number in the CPU column. I would expect
that those numbers would add up to the system CPU number, but is
doesn't. Not even close.
How do I interpret the numbers in the CPU column? How can I see which
process of the system process is taking all the cpu time?
Thanks for any help
Gerard Verhoef
Just to let you know:

I solved the CPU-hog problem, AND I kinda understand better than before
how the process explorer works.
For the latter, see my last posts in this thread.

After all I didn't use process explorer to solve the problem, but simply
turned off apps and services I had running. I didn't try that in the
first place because turning off the system process isn't really an
option of course. And the system process was the villain (at least
according to both process explorer and task manager). Wrong!

System explorer might have been hogging CPU time, but turning off the
COMODO firewall brought the system process back into control as well. So
I guess that it's the combination of several things and turning off
comodo was sufficient to get it right. Keep my fingers crossed of
course, you never know.

Thanks for responding to my post

Gerard.-

Unfortunately
a)the expertise isn't here
b)at least one person here (telling you to use a firewall) seemed to
not even have the brains to realise from your writing and attitude
e.t.c. that you're a techie (this a common problem in this newsgroup)

You may be interested in the following forum, for future reference.
There is a forum specifically for "process explorer" and other
utilities made by the sysinternals team.
http://forum.sysinternals.com/default.asp?C=2



Thanks for the link. I'll look into it.
I wasn't sure where to find the right expertise. Since process explorer is distributed by Microsoft I thought this Ng was as good a place as any to start.

I am grateful for the guys who took the effort to help me. It's an advise I can follow or not as I please. And to be honest: the replies were very helpful because they made me realize that the process explorer provides other feedback than I expected in the first place. Finally: i solved the problem and learnt something in between. What more can a guy want (apart from babes and booze of course)

Gonna check into the other sysinternal utils.

Thanks

Gerard
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