Hey folks,
I wanted to get an idea of what other people's cpu usage is. Recently I've been having problems with a super slow system and I wasn't sure what the deal was.
On a relatively fresh install of windows (1.5 month old), it takes over 3 min to boot windows XP (hibernating 1-2 min). Loading an application takes several seconds. On loading windows welcome sound stutters like crazy. And running more than one application (firefox and email, or multiple firefox windows) consistently results in over 90% cpu usage. As a reference, just now I was watching "The Daily Show" on Firefox (only app open) on my ubuntu partition (8.04.1) and its taking up around 65%-75% cpu usage (on both cores?). When I do the same in windows I consistently hit >95%. If I try to watch hulu at medium or high quality video is totally jump and sound stutters a lot and system become really slow (its not a network issue for sure).
This appears quite strange because the computer was working fine just 1 month ago (it did not have the above stated problems). No new applications or hardware has been installed in the last month (except windows updates). I have defragmented the hard drive, and also tested it for bad sector sectors using fdisk (or whatever the windows app is), and no issues or problems have appeared. Furthermore I have scanned for viruses and the drive appears clean.
Previously boot times were extremely fast (less than 1 min) and I never had any problems loading programs.
The only thing I could think is the CPU overheated - one night it was left running a cpu intensive program, and the laptop had somewhat limited air flow. (but I would expect random crashes if the cpu was bad)
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to know if this is normal? Could it be some random windows update that is killing me? Maybe I did install something but forgot. Hardware? Either way 3 min boot time is a bit ridiculous. Any thoughts?
peace,
boot
I wanted to get an idea of what other people's cpu usage is. Recently I've been having problems with a super slow system and I wasn't sure what the deal was.
On a relatively fresh install of windows (1.5 month old), it takes over 3 min to boot windows XP (hibernating 1-2 min). Loading an application takes several seconds. On loading windows welcome sound stutters like crazy. And running more than one application (firefox and email, or multiple firefox windows) consistently results in over 90% cpu usage. As a reference, just now I was watching "The Daily Show" on Firefox (only app open) on my ubuntu partition (8.04.1) and its taking up around 65%-75% cpu usage (on both cores?). When I do the same in windows I consistently hit >95%. If I try to watch hulu at medium or high quality video is totally jump and sound stutters a lot and system become really slow (its not a network issue for sure).
This appears quite strange because the computer was working fine just 1 month ago (it did not have the above stated problems). No new applications or hardware has been installed in the last month (except windows updates). I have defragmented the hard drive, and also tested it for bad sector sectors using fdisk (or whatever the windows app is), and no issues or problems have appeared. Furthermore I have scanned for viruses and the drive appears clean.
Previously boot times were extremely fast (less than 1 min) and I never had any problems loading programs.
The only thing I could think is the CPU overheated - one night it was left running a cpu intensive program, and the laptop had somewhat limited air flow. (but I would expect random crashes if the cpu was bad)
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to know if this is normal? Could it be some random windows update that is killing me? Maybe I did install something but forgot. Hardware? Either way 3 min boot time is a bit ridiculous. Any thoughts?
peace,
boot
