CPU and RAM usage!

[jimster1982]

Hi all,

Just a little query.

When opening large files nearly all my CPU usage is maxed out to capacity ( I have 800 mhz), however I have a large amount of RAM (512 mb) which is hardly utilised at all!

Is there a way I can configure the usages of these components?? To speedup my opening of programs/files speed etc as its so annoying waiting for them to open!

Cheers

 

[gbaughma]

Well, you *could* set up a ram drive, and copy the large application to that at boot, but make sure it gets copied back at shutdown. Not a real good solution.

Another thing to do is to adjust your pagefile. Leaving the pagefile set on the default (Let Windows manage my pagefile size), means that loading large applications dynamically resizes the pagefile to accomodate the file being loaded, then shrinks it again when it's unloaded. You can manually set the size (by setting the Min and Max pagefile size to the same number) which will remove the resizing step.

Another thing is to make sure that your hard drives are running in the fastest mode possible (UDMA). The bottleneck is definately there. To speed loads, you may want to consider some sort of RAID system, but a faster hard drive (7200 RPM, large cache, running UDMA) is essential to large loads.

--Greg

 

[linney]

Have a look around here.

Select a file - windows stops.
Thread779-422825

Problem: Windows Explorer excessive CPU usage.
thread779-453406


If it turns out to be a problem with large AVI or MP3 files try this.

A suggested workaround: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to
the key below and delete the default data (right pane).

For AVI's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avishellex\PropertyHandler

For MP3's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.mp3\shellex\PropertyHandler

Note: Make a backup of each key before editing.