CPU at 80%

[aksarben10]

I have just started down this road and just built up an old Dell 933 to be my PVR. It is running at a higher CPU util than I thought that it should.

I have a Dell Dimension XPS B933
512 mg memory
PV-350
nVidia 32MB GeForce2 GTS

I use the 350 for both the input and output as the nVidia card is older and does not support video out.

Should this system run at 80% CPU util or is this high?
If it is high what can I do to improve this?

Thanks
Scott

[Toddly]

Yes, that does seem high. Have you looked in Task Manager to see determine which processes are using the CPU the most? Is the computer running anything else besides Sage?

[stanger89]

Do you have software decode disabled (or hardware decoding only) or whatever it's called

[aksarben10]

The Sage TV and Sage Service are the top two service cpu hogs, the service is only a little bit of that.

I just rebuilt this PC for Sage, no other applications on this and it is a new build of Windows XP.

I am using the hardware encoder, I tried switching it to the software encoder and it really dogged the machine.

Scott

[silkshadow]

I have no idea if this will help but try a program called Process Explorer. You can get it at www.sysinternals.com (its free). I had a CPU load problem and discovered that seti@bionic was running 24/7 (buggy piece of software). It was burried under system idle process for some reason and I only discovered it using this program.

[aksarben10]

I figured it out. I played around with the settings and figured out how to turn off the video that goes thru the computer video card. The reason that I got the 350 in the first place was so that I could output the TV signal thru it and not use the video card as I knew that it was not up to snuff.

So, now things are better. Next step - power management.

Thank

Scott

[silkshadow]

Glad you got it worked out! Enjoy Sage .