Computer running at 100% CPU Usage and not sure why
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Good suggestions guys, thanks.
I've never noticed this issue before, so not sure if the recent OEC upgrade may have affected this as well.
I've never noticed this issue before, so not sure if the recent OEC upgrade may have affected this as well.
Sounds like a memory leak problem.
How long has the computer been running without being rebooted? When you try to open a program, can you hear your hard-drive thrashing? Once you run out of physical memory (your DRAM or SRAM), the computer uses the harddrive to store process data -- which is in the magnitude of thousands of times slower than main memory access.
So most likely, your computer has been on for a very, very long time. Windows is notorious for slowly leaking memory and never collecting it, meaning that eventually every process run will be allocated space on the hard-drive, which will cripple your computer's performance.
Try rebooting every couple of days.
How long has the computer been running without being rebooted? When you try to open a program, can you hear your hard-drive thrashing? Once you run out of physical memory (your DRAM or SRAM), the computer uses the harddrive to store process data -- which is in the magnitude of thousands of times slower than main memory access.
So most likely, your computer has been on for a very, very long time. Windows is notorious for slowly leaking memory and never collecting it, meaning that eventually every process run will be allocated space on the hard-drive, which will cripple your computer's performance.
Try rebooting every couple of days.
I know this is extreme, but if all of these other suggestions fail, try reinstalling Windows. When I first bought my PC, after a couple of months I had this problem, and IBM reinstalled new MB, CPU etc, and finally reinstalled windows and that was the culprit. Apparently it can become corrupted.
Edit - I see gnome already suggested this...
Edit - I see gnome already suggested this...