Another VERY good option on XP... bravo.  I had forgotten about this venerable 
tool.

P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Clafton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:52 PM
> To: Peter G. Viscarola; 'Neal Campbell'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [FlexEdge] Interrupt debug
> 
> Take a look at KernRate for XP.  Comes as part of the Resource KT.    I have
> used this in the past
> to narrow down issues to Video and Sound drivers.
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2004/12/21/329321.aspx
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:flexedge-bounces@flex-
> radio.biz] On Behalf Of Peter G. Viscarola
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:25 AM
> To: Neal Campbell
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Interrupt debug
> 
> If the INTERRUPT portion of his CPU usage is at 40% to 50% during disk
> indexing, there's a big problem with his system.
> 
> Well, come to think of it, regardless of what's going on if the interrupt 
> portion
> of his CPU usage is 40% to 50% at any time, I think there's probably a big
> problem with his system.
> 
> Assuming the description of the problem is accurate, and there's not some
> other underlying source, he's either got a driver bug or a piece of
> misbehaving hardware.... or both.
> 
> Peter
> K1PGV
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:21 PM
> > To: Peter G. Viscarola
> > Cc: Al K0VM; [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Interrupt debug
> >
> > Take a look and see if you have turned off Windows Search in the
> > Administrative Services control panel. I bet its Windows indexing the
> > file system.
> >
> > 73
> > On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:13 PM, "Peter G. Viscarola" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It seems you have a device that's causing an "interrupt storm."
> > >
> > > It's tough to diagnose this without the sort of tools a developer would
> use.
> > >
> > > If *I* were trying to diagnose this, I'd use XPERF... it's not easy
> > > to use, and
> > iit only provides limited support for Windows XP.  It ships as part of
> > the Windows SDK.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, I know that's not particularly helpful.  But I'm not
> > > aware of a
> > simpler tool that'll help diagnose this problem (which is pretty rare).
> > >
> > > P
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: [email protected]
> > >> [mailto:flexedge-bounces@flex- radio.biz] On Behalf Of Al K0VM
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:01 PM
> > >> To: [email protected]
> > >> Cc: [email protected]
> > >> Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Interrupt debug
> > >>
> > >> Dudley,
> > >>   Thanks for the response, but Process Explorer show the top two
> > >> CPU usages as System Idle and Interrupts !
> > >>   Strange..
> > >>   Luckily, a reboot fixes it and PSDR continues to run in spite of it..
> > >> I doubt if earlier versions of PSDR would.
> > >>
> > >> AL, K0VM
> > >>
> > >> On 9/4/2012 10:27 AM, FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry wrote:
> > >>> Al,
> > >>>
> > >>> If you open Task manager, to Show process (for all users, checked
> > >>> at the bottom)  If you click the "CPU"  title at the top, the
> > >>> highest CPU usage process will start at the top.  Eating that much
> > >>> CPU should be easy to determine which process is causing the big CPU
> burn.
> > >>> Hopefully is something that you will recognize,   at least in Win7 you
> > >>> can do a right click and it will tell you from which folder that
> > >>> process came from.   Things like remote control SW (VNC variants)  can
> > >>> go into the weeds from time to time,  or some driver with a memory
> > leak.
> > >>>
> > >>> Hope this helps.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 73,
> > >>> Dudley
> > >>>
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> > >>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Al K0VM <[email protected]
> > >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>         This is a bit off-topic but...
> > >>>         I am having a problem with, what appears, to be a torrent of
> > >>>    interrupts consuming 50% of CPU...  They arrive after several
> > >>>    hours of operation and don't really seem to effect current
> > >>>    versions of PSDR.
> > >>>         Once in the torrent mode, I can shut down all apps,
> > >>>    disconnect all external hardware ( except the monitors ) and the
> > >>>    interrupt portion of the the CPU usage remains at 40-50% ( as
> > >>>    reported by Process Explorer ).
> > >>>         Is there any debugging app for WinXP available that will
> > >>>    indentify the source of interrupts ?
> > >>>
> > >>>    AL, K0VM
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