Re: Process uses high CPU usage but no performance drop ??
djarvinen@gmail.com wrote:
Our software consists of a suite of programs developed with MFC that
run simultaneously.
One of our apps consistantly shows an extremely high CPU usage
(90-98%) but yet I see no degradation in the performance of my PC. I
can still run other apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, IE, etc) without
missing a beat.
So what' going on here? First, why is there such a high CPU usage in
this one app? (Timers? Serial Polling? other?), and even more curious,
why doesn't this app drag down all the others in terms of performance?
Absolutely repeatable on WinXP, Win2K and other OS, by the way.
Thanks.
Programs (and threads within programs) have a priority level. It can be
set with SetPriorityClass and SetThreadPriority. A process can consume
all available CPU cycles but still leave the machine responsive for
other applications by setting its priority low. That lets all "normal"
priority processes do what they want, but gives all remaining time to
the low priority process.
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