My Windows 7 laptop has suddenly gotten into a funk where it pegs at 100% CPU utilization. For the last 3 days at about 12:30 it all of a sudden gets really slow. Reboot the system and it's still slow. Today it got past the 12:30 death zone and made it all the way until 4:00. The slowness spans reboots and it seems to take a couple of hours for it to recover. If you look at the processes running in task manager there doesn't seem to be a common process that is chewing up CPU time but tasks that shouldn't take all that much cpu time can be shown to use a lot. For example, task manager can use 50% of the CPU. One thing that I've noticed is, when the system is slow, there have always been a bunch of splunk processes running (splunkd.exe, splunk-regmon.exe, splunk-wmi.exe, splunk-optimize.exe, splunk-admon.exe). Splunkd can be using anywhere from 0 to 50% of the CPU. The other splunks mostly 0%. There are also a bunch of svchost .exe processes running.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. Closing applications doesn't reduce the CPU utilization. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks for your help. Curt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
