Re: [BLACKBOX] Real time & garbage collection

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:52:54 -0700

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-630556269_-_- Content-type: text/plain Wojtek, Thank you. Those are useful comments. I recently uninstalled Norton (antivirus) precisely because it was consuming vast amounts of CPU time. The pausing, however, has occurred after that time so yes there may be other gluttons running. I'll check. -Doug On 6/28/2011 3:40 PM, Wojtek Skulski wrote: Doug: make sure you turn off all the helpful stuff on your computer, like real-time virus protection, parental control, various notifiers which may be watching you, etc. Try making sure that some resident program is not taking over your CPU. Get rid of everything what you can get rid of. Look at the Task Manager with and without BB running. Is there some process which is periodically kicking in, like a resident virus protector? Perhaps even try running BB in the "Windows safe mode". I am saying this because I was getting annoyed with programs like wuauclt or AcroTray, which were periodically doing something with my computer without me being quite aware what they were doing. I could see periodic bursts of activity by these programs. If your machine is loaded to the rim, such bursts of activity involve swapping to disk, and then you will see sudden slowdowns. If the pauses are associated with disk activity, then I would suspect some resident program is kicking in. Not sure if this is your case, but who knows. 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