FWIW, I have never been able to use AVG Resident Shield. It slows FTP down so much as to make it unusable, and I FTP a lot. Try turning off the Resident Shield as a test.
Mike At 09:40 PM 12/28/2009 +0100, Chris Thomas wrote: >George, > >I have a problem with AVG9 resident shield that it's constantly using at least >50% of my cpu and sometimes gobbles near 100% for several minutes. > >The machine is pretty unusable. > >AVG's response (based on msinfo32 output) is that my cpu is too slow at 599Mhz. > >Yes, speedstep should kick in, but it doesn't seem to... > >Chris > >[email protected] wrote: >>They're referring to the maximum CPU speed , not what it's running at >currently under given number of applications. With a 1.7 Ghz Dothan in a >T42, you'll be fine. >>If you pushed the machine hard enough - like opening 20 Firefox >browser windows at the same time - I'm sure it would go above 599 Mhz. >>Not to mention that your 1.7 Ghz Pentium M roughly equals 3.0 Ghz >Pentium 4...and I'm running AVG 9.0 on a A31p with 2.0 Ghz P4M CPU... >>For the record, I've ran AVG 9.0 on Panasonic CF-R4 which had Pentium >M ULV 1.2 Ghz CPU, and it ran very well. >>Hope this helps. >>Cheers, >>George >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Chris Thomas <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Sat, Dec 26, 2009 11:38 am >>Subject: [Thinkpad] T42 Stuck at slow CPU speed >> >>Hi, I have a Thinkpad T42, 1.7Ghz which according to My Computer->Properties >>and msinfo32 is only running at a CPU speed of 599Mhz. Setting cpu speed to >>'max performance' (battery and mains power) in the Thinkpad Power manager has >>no effect. Setting cpu to 'max performance' (battery and mains power) in the >>BIOS seemed to work for a while, but now I'm seeing 599Mhz again. I need to >>resolve this problem to get AVG antivirus to look at a CPU usage problem I >>have - they say at least 1.5Ghz is required for AVG 9. Chris >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
