cpu usage

Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce

"Pierce.Lynch" wrote in message

Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce

You have a Celeron. You have a low amount of RAM. With your system, you are lucky to get it running *AT ALL*.
Bobby

Yes, I think that could well be the case - just find it very strange that for the OS itself to be using such considerable level of resources, its crazy!
Even on a VM setup with considerable RAM allocation - its the same story for a dual 3.2 Xeon machine. I am most confused to what its actually doing with all that CPU power!
"NoNoBadDog!" wrote:

"Pierce.Lynch" wrote in message Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
You have a Celeron. You have a low amount of RAM. With your system, you are lucky to get it running *AT ALL*.
Bobby

It's likely to be the indexer. Let it run for a few days and see how things improve. Also turning off a number of unnecessary services, etc should help improve performance. But with just 512 MB RAM you will notice quite a bit of thrashing. If you have at least a 512 MB USB drive try using readyboost to see if that helps (in lieu of buying more RAM.)
"PLynch" wrote in message

Yes, I think that could well be the case - just find it very strange that for the OS itself to be using such considerable level of resources, its crazy!
Even on a VM setup with considerable RAM allocation - its the same story for a dual 3.2 Xeon machine. I am most confused to what its actually doing with all that CPU power!
"NoNoBadDog!" wrote:
"Pierce.Lynch" wrote in message Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
You have a Celeron. You have a low amount of RAM. With your system, you are lucky to get it running *AT ALL*.
Bobby

Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce

Pierce.Lynch schrieb:

Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce

Fulfilling the minimum requirements does not guarantee a smooth work; in your case, it's both the slow Celi and the small amount of RAM which prevent you from enjoying Vista.
You need something like a Sempron 2800+ or Athlon 3000+ and 1024 MB RAM - otherwise don't complain;-)
(Your next topic will be an adequate video card;-)
Roy

If you have an nvidia, switch to an ati. Search google news for details on that.
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"Roy Coorne" wrote:

Pierce.Lynch schrieb: Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
Pierce,

I am currently testing Vista 5284 on a Tualatin Celeron 1.2@1.46Ghz. A setup similiar to yours. I am running with 640MB of Ram @ 124mhz, using a PCI GeForce FX5200. I am using the 88.61 drivers from Nvidia. My idle cpu usage is around 3-5% and my idle mem usage is roughly 50% +/- 3%. I am using as many features as my system will tolerate. These DO include Aero Glass w/transparency, the Sidebar w/the CPU Gadget. I have disabled items such as the fading/sliding of menus and windows AND disabled Drive Indexing for improved HD performance. My HD is an EIDE 200GB @ DMA 5 ,as this is the maximum my motherboard allows. My chipset is a Via Apollo Pro Tualatin, 694t, but I have not loaded any separate Via drivers into Vista.
My Performanc is next to identical to WinXP Pro on another partition, with the exception of the MEM usage which is conciderably higher in VISTA due to the increased visual elements. If you would like some help determining what exactly is using your resources so rapidly I would be glad to continue posting to help you sort it out since we have similiar system specs.

Elirah,
Sounds like limiting certain features might be the best option for this particuarl machine. I am just most confused as to why it really is using such a considerable level of CPU power at such general tasks.
"eljirah" wrote:

"Roy Coorne" wrote:
Pierce.Lynch schrieb: Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
Pierce,
I am currently testing Vista 5284 on a Tualatin Celeron 1.2@1.46Ghz. A setup similiar to yours. I am running with 640MB of Ram @ 124mhz, using a PCI GeForce FX5200. I am using the 88.61 drivers from Nvidia. My idle cpu usage is around 3-5% and my idle mem usage is roughly 50% +/- 3%. I am using as many features as my system will tolerate. These DO include Aero Glass w/transparency, the Sidebar w/the CPU Gadget. I have disabled items such as the fading/sliding of menus and windows AND disabled Drive Indexing for improved HD performance. My HD is an EIDE 200GB @ DMA 5 ,as this is the maximum my motherboard allows. My chipset is a Via Apollo Pro Tualatin, 694t, but I have not loaded any separate Via drivers into Vista.
My Performanc is next to identical to WinXP Pro on another partition, with the exception of the MEM usage which is conciderably higher in VISTA due to the increased visual elements. If you would like some help determining what exactly is using your resources so rapidly I would be glad to continue posting to help you sort it out since we have similiar system specs.

Also, keep in mind that as a beta the software is probably not yet fully optimized for efficiency.
"PLynch" wrote:

Elirah,
Sounds like limiting certain features might be the best option for this particuarl machine. I am just most confused as to why it really is using such a considerable level of CPU power at such general tasks.
"eljirah" wrote:

"Roy Coorne" wrote:
Pierce.Lynch schrieb: Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
Pierce,
I am currently testing Vista 5284 on a Tualatin Celeron 1.2@1.46Ghz. A setup similiar to yours. I am running with 640MB of Ram @ 124mhz, using a PCI GeForce FX5200. I am using the 88.61 drivers from Nvidia. My idle cpu usage is around 3-5% and my idle mem usage is roughly 50% +/- 3%. I am using as many features as my system will tolerate. These DO include Aero Glass w/transparency, the Sidebar w/the CPU Gadget. I have disabled items such as the fading/sliding of menus and windows AND disabled Drive Indexing for improved HD performance. My HD is an EIDE 200GB @ DMA 5 ,as this is the maximum my motherboard allows. My chipset is a Via Apollo Pro Tualatin, 694t, but I have not loaded any separate Via drivers into Vista.
My Performanc is next to identical to WinXP Pro on another partition, with the exception of the MEM usage which is conciderably higher in VISTA due to the increased visual elements. If you would like some help determining what exactly is using your resources so rapidly I would be glad to continue posting to help you sort it out since we have similiar system specs.

I didnt have seem to have those problems. I am planning on a upgrade soon too. Vista is going to have many people upgrading for the eye candy. -- system: AMD 64 3000, MSI k8t Neo,1.5 gig RAM, WD Raptor SATA 74G HD, eVGA 6800 GT, SB live value, Vista beta 2 64 bit/XP Pro 64 bit... Thanks, BJBB

"Roy Coorne" wrote:

Pierce.Lynch schrieb: Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
Fulfilling the minimum requirements does not guarantee a smooth work; in your case, it's both the slow Celi and the small amount of RAM which prevent you from enjoying Vista.
You need something like a Sempron 2800+ or Athlon 3000+ and 1024 MB RAM - otherwise don't complain;-)
(Your next topic will be an adequate video card;-)
Roy

YES! Microsoft lift up the market of Intel again.We must upgrade our hardware now...Oh,sorry,not upgrade but REPLACE! If you want to have Windows Vista gives an good speed,you should have the following:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8E or more 2Giga Bytes of Memory 256M Graphic Card SATA or SCSI device DVD ROM/WR at least.
"BillyJoeBobbyBob" wrote in message

I didnt have seem to have those problems. I am planning on a upgrade soon too. Vista is going to have many people upgrading for the eye candy. -- system: AMD 64 3000, MSI k8t Neo,1.5 gig RAM, WD Raptor SATA 74G HD, eVGA 6800 GT, SB live value, Vista beta 2 64 bit/XP Pro 64 bit... Thanks, BJBB

"Roy Coorne" wrote:
Pierce.Lynch schrieb: Hi Guys,
Just installed BETA 2 on a machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU with 512MB ram which I would of thought would be ideal for just general testing - but having some performance issues:
While idle or running general windows explorer tasks, the CPU Usage is unreal! In excess of 80% most of the time to simple run windows explorer. Is anyone else experiencing these kind of performance issues as I am greatly concerned that simple OS tasks on a CPU such as this is being completely KILLED!
Has anyone got any suggestions or indeed experiencing the same kind of thing?
Any comments appreciated.
Thanks Pierce
Fulfilling the minimum requirements does not guarantee a smooth work; in your case, it's both the slow Celi and the small amount of RAM which prevent you from enjoying Vista.
You need something like a Sempron 2800+ or Athlon 3000+ and 1024 MB RAM - otherwise don't complain;-)
(Your next topic will be an adequate video card;-)
Roy