Task Manager

[Louis]

I was wondering why, when I look at the Performance Graph of my Task Manager, that nearly any program uses 98 - 100% of the CPU. Do programs when run individually capitalize on the available CPU capacity and then share the space when used concurrently or is there a jostling for space causing a lock up?

[jeffus]

Sounds like the wife installed some spyware to track your every movement! :D

Actually, that shouldn't be happening. I just checked mine and I use 0% of my CPU most of the time and probably just as much grey matter too. :D

[Louis]

well, yeah I guess. I'm looking at mine now and witht he media player running (Jesse Cook rocks!) and the explorer going there's about 2% useage. But just a while ago I was burning a disk and the useage was 100% causing the explorer to "stumble". I'd hate to think what happens if I run excel or power point in addition

[sao95]

I think, and I'm not positive, but burning a cd uses a 100% because of the type of process it is and how fast most burners are now-a-days, in effect it is transferring a constant and large amount of data, you can adjust the burn speed down a notch and probably won't have that problem. Most programs use alot when they first open for the same reason.

[Muz]

Newer burners will cache data ahead of the write just in case other processes need resources during the cd burning process. Older burners didn't have that capability resulting in a lot of "coasters" being created when the write buffer got ahead of the data read buffer. That "stumble" you experienced used to mean a worthless cd back in the day.