High CPU usage, Live Ultra for Notebooks

I've been using the Live Ultra for Notebooks for a while, and it has consistently high CPU usage. It breaks down to about 50-60% for the driver (V0070Vid.sys thread, in the "System" process) and then a bit more (+5%) for DPC's. Combined with the host application (Skype, 25% CPU) means the whole thing essentially takes over my CPU.
Is this typical CPU usage for this webcam? I've used other ones, and I seem to remember that CPU usage was a lot lower. I have this problem on 2 different computers.
AMD Sempron 300+
GB Ram
Windows 2000 SP4
Please post what webcam, CPU, OS, and about how much CPU % your webcam takes. I'd like to see if these results are normal. Thanks.

I also have a Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Basic. I tried to install the "BETA" Vista drivers for this camera (VF0070) and it says the driver is only for Vista 32-bit and 64-bit. Is there a solution to this? Should I just return this and go buy a Logitech instead?

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Hi Team,
We have a very high cpu usage issue in the production.
When we restart the server, the cpu idle time would be around 95% and it comes down as days goes by. Today idle cpu is 30% and it is just 6th day after the server restart.
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What I have found so far is that this corresponds to increased GC activity.
Let me list my environment specs before I proceed, though:
CPU: Dual Xeon 3.06GHz
RAM: 2GB
OS: RHEL4.4 (2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp)
JVM build 1.5.0_03-b07 (BEA JRockit(R) (build dra-45238-20050523-2008-linux-ia32, R25.2.0-28))
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Here are excerpts from my verbose log (I'm getting some HT warning, not sure if that's a problem):
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Detected SMP with 2 CPUs that support HT.
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Trying to determine if HT is enabled.
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Trying to read from /dev/cpu/0/cpuid
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Warning: Failed to read from /dev/cpu/0/cpuid
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Trying to read from /dev/cpu/1/cpuid
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Warning: Failed to read from /dev/cpu/1/cpuid
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] HT is: supported by the CPU, not enabled by the OS, enabled in JRockit.
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:18 2006][22855][cpuinfo] Warning: HT enabled even though OS does not seem to support it.
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:55 2006][22855][memory ] GC strategy: System optimized over throughput (initial strategy singleparpar)
[Fri Oct 20 15:54:55 2006][22855][memory ] heap size: 786432K, maximal heap size: 786432K
[Fri Oct 20 16:07:30 2006][22855][memory ] Changing GC strategy to generational, parallel mark and parallel sweep
[Fri Oct 20 16:07:30 2006][22855][memory ] 791.642-791.874: GC 786432K->266892K (786432K), 232.000 ms
[Fri Oct 20 16:08:02 2006][22855][memory ] 824.122: nursery GC 291998K->274164K (786432K), 175.873 ms
[Fri Oct 20 16:09:51 2006][22855][memory ] 932.526: nursery GC 299321K->281775K (786432K), 110.879 ms
[Fri Oct 20 16:10:24 2006][22855][memory ] 965.844: nursery GC 308151K->292222K (786432K), 174.609 ms
[Fri Oct 20 16:11:54 2006][22855][memory ] 1056.368: nursery GC 314718K->300068K (786432K), 66.032 ms
[Sat Oct 21 23:21:09 2006][22855][memory ] 113210.427: nursery GC 734274K->676137K (786432K), 188.985 ms
[Sat Oct 21 23:30:41 2006][22855][memory ] 113783.140: nursery GC 766601K->708592K (786432K), 96.007 ms
[Sat Oct 21 23:36:15 2006][22855][memory ] 114116.332-114116.576: GC 756832K->86835K (786432K), 243.333 ms
[Sat Oct 21 23:48:20 2006][22855][memory ] 114841.653: nursery GC 182299K->122396K (786432K), 175.252 ms
[Sat Oct 21 23:48:52 2006][22855][memory ] 114873.851: nursery GC 195060K->130483K (786432K), 142.122 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:01:31 2006][22855][memory ] 115632.706: nursery GC 224096K->166618K (786432K), 327.264 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:16:37 2006][22855][memory ] 116539.368: nursery GC 246564K->186328K (786432K), 173.888 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:26:21 2006][22855][memory ] 117122.577: nursery GC 279056K->221543K (786432K), 170.367 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:26:21 2006][22855][memory ] 117123.041: nursery GC 290439K->225833K (786432K), 69.170 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:29:10 2006][22855][memory ] 117291.795: nursery GC 298947K->238083K (786432K), 207.200 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:39:05 2006][22855][memory ] 117886.478: nursery GC 326956K->263441K (786432K), 87.009 ms
[Sun Oct 22 00:55:22 2006][22855][memory ] 118863.947: nursery GC 357229K->298971K (786432K), 246.643 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:08:17 2006][22855][memory ] 119638.750: nursery GC 381744K->322332K (786432K), 147.996 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:11:22 2006][22855][memory ] 119824.249: nursery GC 398678K->336478K (786432K), 93.046 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:35 2006][22855][memory ] 120436.740: nursery GC 409150K->345186K (786432K), 81.304 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:38 2006][22855][memory ] 120439.582: nursery GC 409986K->345832K (786432K), 153.534 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:42 2006][22855][memory ] 120443.544: nursery GC 410632K->346473K (786432K), 121.371 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:44 2006][22855][memory ] 120445.508: nursery GC 411273K->347591K (786432K), 60.688 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:44 2006][22855][memory ] 120445.623: nursery GC 412391K->347785K (786432K), 68.935 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:45 2006][22855][memory ] 120446.576: nursery GC 412585K->348897K (786432K), 152.333 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:21:45 2006][22855][memory ] 120446.783: nursery GC 413697K->349080K (786432K), 70.456 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:34:16 2006][22855][memory ] 121197.612: nursery GC 437378K->383392K (786432K), 165.771 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:37:37 2006][22855][memory ] 121398.496: nursery GC 469709K->409076K (786432K), 78.257 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:37:37 2006][22855][memory ] 121398.730: nursery GC 502490K->437713K (786432K), 65.747 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:44:03 2006][22855][memory ] 121785.259: nursery GC 536605K->478156K (786432K), 132.293 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:44:04 2006][22855][memory ] 121785.603: nursery GC 568408K->503635K (786432K), 71.751 ms
[Sun Oct 22 01:50:39 2006][22855][memory ] 122180.985: nursery GC 591332K->530811K (786432K), 131.831 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:13:52 2006][22855][memory ] 123573.719: nursery GC 655566K->595257K (786432K), 117.311 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:36:04 2006][22855][memory ] 124905.507: nursery GC 688896K->632129K (786432K), 346.990 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:24 2006][22855][memory ] 125765.715-125765.904: GC 786032K->143954K (786432K), 189.000 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:26 2006][22855][memory ] 125767.535-125767.761: GC 723232K->70948K (786432K), 225.000 ms
vvvvv
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:27 2006][22855][memory ] 125768.751-125768.817: GC 712032K->71390K (786432K), 64.919 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:28 2006][22855][memory ] 125769.516-125769.698: GC 711632K->61175K (786432K), 182.000 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:29 2006][22855][memory ] 125770.753-125770.880: GC 709632K->81558K (786432K), 126.000 ms
[Sun Oct 22 02:50:30 2006][22855][memory ] 125771.699-125771.878: GC 708432K->61368K (786432K), 179.000 ms
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Now, if you look at [Sun Oct 22 02:50:27 2006], that's when everything changes. GC starts running every second (later on it's running 3 times a second) doing huge sweeps. It never goes through the nursery again, although the strategy is still generational.
It's all downhill from this point on, and it's a matter of hours (maybe a day) before we restart the server.
I guess my only question is: What would cause such GC behavior?
I would appreciate your ideas/comments!
Thanks,
Tenyo

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Application Basics
Name: Firefox
Version: 24.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
Extensions
Important Modified Preferences
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
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extensions.lastAppVersion: 24.0
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plugin.importedState: true
plugin.state.silverlight: 0
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true
Graphics
Device ID: 0x 655
GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL
Vendor ID: 0x10de
WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine
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AzureContentBackend: none
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JavaScript
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NSPR
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NSS
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NSSSMIME
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NSSSSL
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Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSUTIL
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here an example of mine PC:
at 8:07 i started Hardware Inventory Cycle, in the InventoryAgent.log i can see that some Collection Namespace are captured.
after a few minutes there stopped and does nothing round about 5.9 hours or better, after 21436.097 Seconds.
For any hints i am grateful. :)
Inventory: *********************** Start of message processing. ***********************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Message type is InventoryAction InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 08:09:56 11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Temp directory = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Clearing old collected files. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 08:09:56 11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Opening store for action {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001} ...
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
CInvState::VerifyInventoryVersionNumber: Mismatch found for '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}': 4.2 vs. 0.0
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Version number mismatch; will do a Full report.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Action=Hardware, ReportType=ReSync, MajorVersion=5, MinorVersion=0
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Initialization completed in 0.141 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Collection: Namespace = \\localhost\root\Microsoft\appvirt\client; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, CachedLaunchSize, CachedPercentage, CachedSize, LaunchSize, Name, PackageGUID, TotalSize, Version, VersionGUID FROM Package; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
7836 (0x1E9C)
Failed to get IWbemService Ptr for \\localhost\root\vm\VirtualServer Namespace: 8004100E
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Failed to enumerate instances of VirtualMachine: 8004100E
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, AddressWidth, BrandID, CPUHash, CPUKey, DataWidth, DeviceID, Family, Is64Bit, IsHyperthreadCapable, IsMobile, IsTrustedExecutionCapable, IsVitualizationCapable, Manufacturer,
MaxClockSpeed, Name, NormSpeed, NumberOfCores, NumberOfLogicalProcessors, PCache, ProcessorId, ProcessorType, Revision, SocketDesignation, Status, SystemName, Version FROM SMS_Processor; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\CCM\powermanagementagent; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Requester, RequesterInfo, RequesterType, RequestType, Time, UnknownRequester FROM CCM_PwrMgmtLastSuspendError; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Availability, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, Status FROM Win32_IDEController; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, BinFileVersion, BinProductVersion, Description, ExecutableName, FilePropertiesHash, FilePropertiesHashEx, FileSize, FileVersion, HasPatchAdded, InstalledFilePath, IsSystemFile,
IsVitalFile, Language, Product, ProductCode, ProductVersion, Publisher FROM SMS_InstalledExecutable; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, DefaultIPGateway, DHCPEnabled, DHCPServer, DNSDomain, DNSHostName, Index, IPAddress, IPEnabled, IPSubnet, MACAddress, ServiceName FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration; Timeout
= 600 secs. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:06:43 7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\Nap; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, description, fixupState, friendlyName, id, infoClsid, isBound, percentage, registrationDate, vendorName, version FROM NAP_SystemHealthAgent; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, AdditionalProductCodes, CompanyName, ExplorerFileName, FileDescription, FilePropertiesHash, FileSize, FileVersion, FolderPath, LastUsedTime, LastUserName, msiDisplayName,
msiPublisher, msiVersion, OriginalFileName, ProductCode, ProductLanguage, ProductName, ProductVersion, SoftwarePropertiesHash FROM CCM_RecentlyUsedApps; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, BankLabel, Capacity, Caption, CreationClassName, DataWidth, Description, DeviceLocator, FormFactor, HotSwappable, InstallDate, InterleaveDataDepth, InterleavePosition, Manufacturer,
MemoryType, Model, Name, OtherIdentifyingInfo, PartNumber, PositionInRow, PoweredOn, Removable, Replaceable, SerialNumber, SKU, Speed, Status, Tag, TotalWidth, TypeDetail, Version FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Availability, Description, DeviceID, InstallDate, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, ProductName, Status FROM Win32_SoundDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Caption, ClassGuid, ConfigManagerErrorCode, ConfigManagerUserConfig, CreationClassName, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, Service, Status, SystemCreationClassName,
SystemName FROM Win32_USBDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: 62/74 inventory data items successfully inventoried.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Collection Task completed in 21436.097 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: 12 Collection Task(s) failed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Temp report = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\25bf01b2-12fc-4eea-8e97-a51b3c75ba50.xml
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Starting reporting task. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7552 (0x1D80)
Reporting: 4381 report entries created. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:13 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Reporting Task completed in 1.030 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Successfully sent report. Destination:mp:MP_HinvEndpoint, ID: {5541A94A-BED9-4132-AE54-110CB6896F02}, Timeout: 80640 minutes MsgMode: Signed, Not Encrypted
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Cycle completed in 21453.570 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Action completed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:30 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: ************************ End of message processing. ************************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Caption, ClassGuid, ConfigManagerErrorCode, ConfigManagerUserConfig, CreationClassName, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, Service, Status, SystemCreationClassName,
SystemName FROM Win32_USBDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: 62/74 inventory data items successfully inventoried.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Collection Task completed in 21436.097 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: 12 Collection Task(s) failed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Temp report = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\25bf01b2-12fc-4eea-8e97-a51b3c75ba50.xml
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Starting reporting task. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7552 (0x1D80)
Reporting: 4381 report entries created. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:13 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Reporting Task completed in 1.030 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Successfully sent report. Destination:mp:MP_HinvEndpoint, ID: {5541A94A-BED9-4132-AE54-110CB6896F02}, Timeout: 80640 minutes MsgMode: Signed, Not Encrypted
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Cycle completed in 21453.570 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Action completed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:30 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: ************************ End of message processing. ************************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)

InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, DefaultIPGateway, DHCPEnabled, DHCPServer, DNSDomain, DNSHostName, Index, IPAddress, IPEnabled, IPSubnet, MACAddress, ServiceName FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration; Timeout
= 600 secs. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:06:43 7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\Nap; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, description, fixupState, friendlyName, id, infoClsid, isBound, percentage, registrationDate, vendorName, version FROM NAP_SystemHealthAgent; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Looks like something in one or both of those wmi queries. it goes from 8:10:03 to 14:06:43 right around there. 6 hours to do that...
try running those queries from wbemtest manually; and see which one just never finishes.
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Since 10.4.6 Update: "ATSServer" with high CPU-usage when opening PDFs

Since I've updated to 10.4.6 my system is very slow when I open PDFs (in "Preview" or "Acrobat").
This is caused by the process "ATSServer" which goes through every file in "~/Library/Fonts" (I have over 4.800 files there - but just a view are activated by "FontBook") and so it takes very high CPU-usage.
I didn't have this problem bevore the update and I didn't make any changes on my font settings.
I've cleaned the font cache, but it doesn't help.
Any ideas?
Ciao
Mephizo
PS: Excuse my poor English.
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I haven't noticed any change myself, Dan, but I have the 2 GHz model.
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