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Hi Jimmy:
Thanks for the ideas. I've tried looking at individual user level processes
directly but what happens is this - the machine usage spikes, lets's say up
to 80%. But the % of the processor that is being used by kernel stuff is
60%. That's way too much - it shouldn't be consistently high like that.
I'm thinking it's the video drivers for the colorgraphic xentera cards -
they probably just do not like sp2. They're the latest drivers but not
signed/certified by microsoft as being xp compliant. I'm focusing on that
initially as a problem because it seems that anything screen intensive is
causing the spike in kernel times.
I realize that focusing on the kernel times may be wrong but right now
that's the only thing that stands out as odd compared to all the other
machines that I'm running this version of tradestation on.
Yeah, AVG's processes are negligible 'cause they aren't doing anything and
that's confirmed by task manager.
Sincerely,
Nigel
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. - Vince
Lombardi.
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From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:05 PM
To: Nigel Bahadur; Omega-List
Subject: Re[2]: Question about Windows XP2 and Tradestation 8.1 Build 3159
Nigel,
First make a list of the processes that come on when you turn
Tradestation on. Now turn on Tradestation. Now if the processor is
running 100% start turning off processes one at a time. Watch the
processor indicator. Easy simple quick and free. Forget device
drivers. What device do you think is running other than your network
connection. Open a browser instead of Tradestation if you are worried
about a driver. It will act up then. You don't need kernel info.
Just find the process that is causing the high cpu usage. Also note
that AVG's process is avgcc.exe. I think you said it doesn't run full
time. Mine does. It isn't a problem for me but maybe it is for you.
Forget the kernel stuff just look at the processes and how much memory
they are using. That will get you to the source. Make it easy. Go
for the fix.
Jimmy
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Steve:
Thanks for the sysinternals link. I tried some of their stuff but
unfortunately, none of it gets down to the kernel level. If these guys
can't do that then I guess it's probably impossible to see what kernel
processes/device drivers are spinning the processor other than to deactivate
device drivers one at a time. I guess I'll just have to lose some of my
screens for a couple of days. Ha.
Thanks a lot for the ideas.
Sincerely,
Nigel
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. - Vince
Lombardi.
- -----Original Message-----
From: sgr [mailto:sgr1@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:37 PM
To: Nigel Bahadur; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Question about Windows XP2 and Tradestation 8.1 Build 3159
Nigel,
You might try the (free) process explorer utility from sysinternals.com
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
It gives a lot more detail than the standard task monitor.
They have a bunch of very useful and tricky freeware utilities. Definitely
worth a look, there are a bunch of their utilities that I load whenever I
set up a new system.
Steve
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From: "Nigel Bahadur" <nbahadur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Bob Fulks'" <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: Question about Windows XP2 and Tradestation 8.1 Build 3159
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> Bob:
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> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't apply in this
situation
> - - the antivirus agent on this computer is AVG and it doesn't run in
realtime
> - - it does a full scan every night though. (The machine itself is behind
a
> firewall that does all the antivirus scanning at that level so for my
> purposes on a trading only machine I can turn off the real-time stuff.)
>
> I really wish there was a way to see which device drivers were using the
> processor time. I suspect it's a conflict between TS and a device
driver -
> if I could only identify which driver(s) it is...
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Nigel
>
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* Nigel Bahadur <nigel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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