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I do not really want to buy a new computer and know that those I have talked with at this point are only guessing after looking for what they thought should fix it. 4 People from Lightroom Support have all thought I should not be having problems with my setup.
I bought one of the best computers 2 years ago. Is it really obsolete already so that I cannot use LR5? Is everyone else buying a new PC every 2 years? I used to go 5-7 years.
Even though I have figured out some of what my PC has, I really do not know technically what I am talking about so am at the mercy of other's help. Are there any solutions that might work short of buying a new computer?
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Try editing these image files inside the new catalog as you were previously.

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Hello Everyone
I have just finished a fresh install of Essbase 11, migrated a few applications over, and for a time everything works as it should.
But leave the server running for a couple of days (with very little usage) and the essbase service utilizes 100% cpu, making the essbase unusable. The event reoccurs after service & server reboot
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Have you looked at the Essbase.log and application logs?
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We perform a load test over our application server with 40 users only. The test is pretty simple and doesn't deserve to be explained here (it uses no special system resources). In an unpredictable moment the java process utilizes 100% CPU and doesn't react to 'kill -3' but to 'kill -9' only. The problem is it happens whenever it wishes. No logic behind it. Every test loop takes about 1 minute to complete and the server gets stucked sometimes after 10 mins and sometimes after 3 houres of work. Changing java heap parameters and playing with new/old generation ratio also doesn't lead to any conclusion. Sometimes it happens before full gc but other settings allow full gc to happen every minute and the server works for hours.
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In my case the loop looked like the following. A thread is started running this class, later another thread passes it some data by calling put(). There is no synchronization so the former thread is not obliged to see the effects of any other thread. The optimizer legally considered this loop to be do-nothing.
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RHEL 4
Oracle 10.2.0.4
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Over the past few weeks my production database performance has majorly degraded. I have not made any application, OS, or database changes (I was on vacation!). I have started troubleshooting, but need some more tips as to what else I can check.
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Mimi
Edited by: Mimi Miami on Jul 25, 2009 10:22 AM

Tables/Indexes last analyzed today.
I figured out that it was the Oracle Text indexes synching to frequently that was causing the problem. I disabled all the jobs that kicked off those indexes and my CPU utilization dropped to almost 0%. I will work on tuning the interval/re-enabling the indexes for my dynamic datasources.
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We are having two pair of NIPS SSP and working in Active and standby mode.
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If you want to see if your device is getting more traffic than it can process, you should look at inspection load.
I hope this will help and it would be nice if someone from Cisco team could reply to this.

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Hi,
Problem:
While stress testing the application with 20 simultaneous users, unix is 100% utilized and there is degradation in response times.
One component of the application is invoking a unix script which is executing a java program after setting CLASSPATH, PATH etc. I guess thus each execution will be invoking a jvm. At the end of the program it will do a System.Exit(). This java program generates around 15-60 barcode images. It takes 2 secs normally.
When, 5 and 10 concurrent users executing this unix script for a steady state time of 30 minutes is also working fine even through response time degrades to 4 secs.
With 20 concurrent users, unix box with 4 CPUs is 100% utilized and response time degrades to 11 secs or so.
We need to do this through unix script only because it is executed from database tier (oracle reports - rdfs) and java stored procs doesn't allow awt operations (image file creation).
I repeated this testing using a java class which just loops for 2 secs. With 20 concurrent users, it was also degrading to 6 secs or so and fluctuating between 100% CPU utilization.
Any pointers on what we should be analyzing more and how should we try to solve this issue.
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Stupid forums made me change the ``screen name.'' Whatever...
Anyway, it is resource intensive to invoke a new JVM per request. You can do several things but it comes down to the fact you will want to keep ONE JVM running in the background awaiting requests to do work. These requests can come from several mechanisms, such as polling a database table, sending requests over a local TCP socket, listening in on a Unix fifo file, etc, etc.
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Hi Ryan / Folks,
NO CA Products here - but I have had the same issues with Microsoft updates!
Here's the install path I used during my experience :
Cold install of XP with SP1 on the PC (Full factory system restore/rebuild).
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XP SP2
Windows updates OK - used to install IE7
Reason - I found IE is compromised if you go straight to XP SP3
XP SP3
Next Office 2003 Pro
Switch to Microsoft updates - Custom Updates - SVCHost issue - Still checking for updates after 15 minutes
Switch back to Windows updates - Custom Updates - NO SVCHost Issue - Checking complete after 2 minutes
Tried both Microsoft fixes mentioned above
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
Same report back - i.e. SP3 newer etc.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 - Method 2
Seems to install ok
Reboot PC
Swich back to manual Microsoft Updates and all is not really rosey as the initial "checking updates" scan can take at least 5 minutes with SVCHost at better than 90% CPU usage. So I believe the issue is not fixed, but it is just about useable.
Interestingly, no issues on my work LAN where I am the systems manager - 20 PCs and 8 servers using WSUS. All units are up to date and no SVCHost issues.
So.... No fix yet here, however my solution is as follows:
On the problematic PC I decided to switch back to Automatic Windows Updates. This keeps the PC up to date with all Operating System patches. Performance is not affected. I have decided that I will manually switch to the Microsoft update system once every couple of weeks or so to catch the updates for Office etc. I'll just have to set the updates scan running over a quiet period I suppose.
Plan B = Manual Office Updates http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/default.aspx - Left Pane - Office Updates.
Hope this sheds some light.
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Knaphie

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I am creating a new Adobe Interactive Form in my web dynpro java application.
When I am trying to run that application on server which is having only 2-3 UI elements in interactive form it's using 100% CPU and adobe form is not getting render.
Some of the adobe forms are already working properly on the server.
Does anybody faced such issue or somebody knows what may cause this issue so please help me out on that.
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Clear CPU Temp folders START->RUN-><Type TEMP> you will get processed Forms that are locally stored in your system Temp folder select all and delete.
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Since upgrading to XCode 4.4, I am seeing it use > 100% CPU. I've taken a sample, most threads appear to be spending almost all their time in mach_msg_trap (partial sample below). Known issue? Other than editing some rather simple C++ code, xcode is downloading and installing libraries, not an activity that I'd expect to spin my fans up to top speed.
Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?
Sampling process 39159 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Xcode (pid 39159) every 1 millisecond
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Path:            /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Load Address:    0x101ca9000
Identifier:      com.apple.dt.Xcode
Version:         4.4 (1484)
Build Info:      IDEApplication-1484000000000000~4
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [106]
Date/Time:       2012-07-28 14:42:37.585 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 7
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    +             2121 ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox) + 355 [0x7fff8c121781]
    +               2121 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox) + 277 [0x7fff8c11a4d3]
    +                 2119 CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation) + 230 [0x7fff8f6ac486]
    +                 ! 2100 __CFRunLoopRun (in CoreFoundation) + 1204 [0x7fff8f6acc74]
    +                 ! : 2100 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort (in CoreFoundation) + 188 [0x7fff8f6a450c]
    +                 ! :   2100 mach_msg (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 73 [0x7fff8976fd71]
    +                 ! :     2100 mach_msg_trap (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff8977067a]

I believe the NSLog is a different problem.
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I have a new MacBook air and I am seeing the high CPU usage causing my fans to spin up so high that I can hear them on my normally silent machine, but with no beachball. Quitting Xcode and reopening resolves the issue on my MaxBook Air.

100% cpu utilization

We have been struggling for few month now trying to figure out this problem. Application runs fine for few days (or even few weeks in some instances), and then load average (uptime) goes to 1 and cpu is becomes 100% utilized. If I leave it running, in few hours load average starts going up. The the entire application locks up when load average is around 15. Some of our applications actually have been running for few month before this happens.
We are running on linux. The problem shows itself much faster on Redhat 9, it�s not as bad on Redhat8. Also, it�s much better under 1.4.2_02 jvm, and pretty bad on 1.4.2_06. It also happens in 1.5.0_01. It looks to be most stable with 1.5.0_01 with ConcurrentGC. We have few dozen servers each running at least 2 JVMs, and tested every combination possible.
Our application is heavily thread, custom built. We have a load test running at 10 times the number of threads and can not replicate this problem within few days, so I believe it has nothing to do with the number of threads and the way we use them.

General technique for Java apps that use 100% CPU is to take a series of thread dumps (send SIGQUIT on UNIX, Ctrl-Break on Windows), once a second for 10 seconds.
When you analyze these dumps, look for threads that are consistently in Runnable state. If you've got some sort of loop running, you'll see the same set of threads Runnable in all the traces, and you'll see the stack trace showing what they're executing.
Also, search the Bug Parade for your symptoms. Link is available from the main java.sun.com page.

100% CPU Utilization on

I have a 1U Server purchased in August, 2003. The motherboard model is MS-9129, motherboard chipset is Intel 845E ( Brookdale-E) + ICH4. Bios is Phoneix Award 6.00 PG, dated 12/10/2002. We are running Windows 2003 Standard Edition, SP1
The system is currently operating at 100% CPU, with the System process consuming all otherwise unused capacity. Within the System process, an ACPI thread is utilizing all the resources. Our analysis, together win Microsoft Tech Support suggests upgrading the bios to a more current version.
Two Questions:
1) Have you experienced this, and do you concurr with the solution, or do you have a better one?
2) What, and where can I get it, is the most current BIOS? Do you have Installation instructions?
Thanks
Phil Rounds
[email protected]
Time is of the essence here.

I've run a virus scan showing no viruses, and Symantec AV is up to date and running.
I can't get a screen shot, as there is no software on the server capable of getting one, and I can't load anything when it is this slow. Besides, all diagnostics I have, or that Microsoft has had me run, show that it is the ACPI subsystem which is causing the problem. I have disabled all software other than the basic operating system, have assured that the OS up to date and still have the same issues.
MSI's LiveUpdate shows the BIOS to be version 1.0, with the most up to date one for this system seems to be 1.3. Does anyone know how
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NUMA node zero at 100% CPU utilization while others are around 50% - why?

Questions:
How can I tell which processes are maxing out one of my eight NUMA nodes' CPU? i.e. what tool would give me that insight? I've poked around procmon.exe and don't think it has this, but am not sure yet.
Any thoughts on what's going wrong overall, given the description below?
Symptoms:
Task Manager shows one NUMA node at 100% CPU (and in processors view, shows all 8 CPUs in that node at 100%), while other nodes range from 0-90% depending on load
SQL Server, which is the only significant CPU user on this box, is running regular jobs 2x slower than it did last week. Last week it was running Windows and SQL 2008 R2 SP1, and this week it has been rebuilt (from scratch - not upgraded) with Windows
and SQL 2012.
Environment:
HP DL980 G7, 64 cores, 1TB RAM, 50TB fast disk for SQL use, 120TB slow disk for file storage
Hyperthreading enabled - last week, it was not (since it's not supported well in Windows 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role and 64 cores)
Windows Server 2012 Standard, installer we got via Software Assurance (and yes, I have an MS support case, ID 112110854959943, but I often lose days before my case escalates to the right person, so I'm hoping someone knowledgeable sees this first,
as I have some very unhappy users!). Last week was Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise.
SQL Server 2012 RTM Enterprise Core. Will update to latest CU as soon as I get a maintenance window. Last week was SQL 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise.
Max d.o.p. on six SQL instances is set to 8, on the seventh it is set to 16. No CPU affinity set by us for SQL or anything else.
Hyper-V role installed. Had this role last week too.
Domain controller. Had this role last week too.
Also running DFS (with replication turned off this week, though it was on last week), not much going on there right now so I don't think it's related to the problem.
Task Manager and Resource Monitor show Memory is fine (100GB free), Disk is fine (<500 MB/s I/O, compared to regularly running at 1-2 GB/s in the past). perfmon won't open for me, possibly due to an unrelated problem (port exhausting with DNS Client,
another MS support case we have ongoing)
Planned next steps:
I have removed the Hyper-V role and am awaiting user permission to reboot for that to complete. Will see if that fixes it.
If it doesn't, I'll reboot again and remove hyperthreading.
And in the meantime, via MS support and this post, I'm trying to understand what is going on, what is wrong. I would love your help!

To follow-up on Ethan's post (he works with me) - this is what it looks like in Task Manager.
Normally, all 64 CPUs would be at/near 100%. But SQL jobs look they are being bottlenecked on NUMA node 0 (despite no affinity being set - everything is default/automatic). Another symptom (other than very slow SQL jobs) is that various management tools
in the host partition are very unresponsive.
The significant changes are:
* WS2012 vs WS2008R2 SP1
* SQL2012 vs. SQL2008R2
* Hyperthreading enabled in BIOS to give 128 logical processors to the hypervisor. 64 logical processors are made available to the host partition (the limit in WS2012)
All SQL instances are running in the host partition. There is no significant network or other activity on this box. No VMs are running. CPU-Z shows 8 sockets, 8 cores/socket, 8 thread/socket in the host partition. So despite hyperthreading/SMT being
turned on, it looks like all 64 real cores are being exposed to the host partition.
See also here, where Microsoft recommends leaving SMT/hyperthreading on in all cases with WS2012:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthts/archive/2012/10/14/windows-server-sockets-logical-processors-symmetric-multi-threading.aspx

Utilization 100% CPU

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