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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
MS Office has this OSE.exe that is supposed to accelerate loading.
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Sgt.Joe
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This may be slightly off topic, but I have also experienced a slowdown when using Wordperfect for DOS v5.1 under WinXP sp2. ( I still like it better than Word, it is simpler for the basic items I do). However, I traced it to which command interpreter it is running under. If I use cmd.exe it will grab all available cpu cycles, however if I use command.com to open the DOS window, it's use of cpu cycles is minimal, having no apparent effect on anything else. Hope this helps someone else.
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Sekerob
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This may be slightly off topic, but I have also experienced a slowdown when using Wordperfect for DOS v5.1 under WinXP sp2. ( I still like it better than Word, it is simpler for the basic items I do). However, I traced it to which command interpreter it is running under. If I use cmd.exe it will grab all available cpu cycles, however if I use command.com to open the DOS window, it's use of cpu cycles is minimal, having no apparent effect on anything else. Hope this helps someone else. Cheers Sgt.Joe Minnesota Crunchers Not off topic at all... the discussion slow or fast load and cpu cycle steeling..... i was mesmerized by that command.exe load v cmd.exe. I cant see an actual command.exe process is taskmanager, whereas cmd.exe does show..... is WinXP really still running on top of DOS (a Sunday afternoon LOL).
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I think it's an alias for ntvdm.exe
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Sekerob
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never too old to learn.... NT Virtual DOS Machine..... RLOL because the first hit in google goes like "Windows XP: ntvdm.exe using almost 100% cpu usage"
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Sgt.Joe
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Command.com (not command.exe) is the original DOS command interpreter. It must have some different interaction with XP. It also does not support long file names.
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Sekerob
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Matter of habit..... typed command.com into the command line box, yet write command.exe in the post (latter does not exist)
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I deselect the HDC project and reinstall the WCG agent.
Now it is running FAH project. But the problem still exists. I try to Snooze the agent, everything is fine. Continue running, problem occurs. Snooze - fine, continue - problem.... I guess it is not because HDC project... maybe it is "Intel Core Duo CPU"? |
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Hello Zhong Tao Gao/China/IBM,
FightAIDS@Home is a fairly small project, particularly if you have a 2 GB machine running Core Duo. I cannot think of anything that could cause such a slowdown, unless temperature is forcing the laptop to reduce clock speed. Is there a utility program that comes with your laptop that can detect temperature or clock slowdowns? Lawrence |
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Hi,
I can confirm the problem with slowdowns. To make it clear: The slowdowns happen due to overwhelming hard disc reading/writing. Yes, this happens most often when coming out of hibernate mode or booting up, but also sometimes for no apparent reason in the middle of the work. When I terminate the grid client, this stops. I have Acer Travelmate 8100 notebook (Centrino 2 Gz, 1 Gb RAM, 100Gb SATA disc). The hard disc is defragmented on regular basis, there is plenty of space on it, the computer is virus and spyware-free (as IT-responsible in our Department I should know;)). I have noticed this only when the client works on help_defeat_cancer. I have just changed the settings in order to remove that project from my list. As I am writing this, my disc is again in the full run, effectively disabling any activity that requires hard disc operation (including but not limiting to opening word documents). I would classify this as a bug. Best regards, akell Hello Zhong Tao Gao/China/IBM, FightAIDS@Home is a fairly small project, particularly if you have a 2 GB machine running Core Duo. I cannot think of anything that could cause such a slowdown, unless temperature is forcing the laptop to reduce clock speed. Is there a utility program that comes with your laptop that can detect temperature or clock slowdowns? Lawrence |
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