CMS hacked off.
ManStan
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Yesterday after prenaming folders I got Studio 4.6 to install and run right. Worked with it a bit, closed; can't get a good size work area at all. Went on about my day watching stuff on line; Daria, zero hour, charlie jade, and working with carrara. And tried to track down a 50's style cabin cursor for the scene I am working. Then shut everything down about midnight.
Got up this AM at about 5:30; I'm an insomniac, and fired up this gatewayasaures rex. Ran it though bios, waited for windows to load then my start up apps; security mostly. They took ages to load; half an hour. Nothing would start or run, just being extremely slow; likr glacial. My first thought was I picked up some spyware surfing for free meshes yesterday so, even though to took quite some time, I ran spybot; 2 and a half hours, no spyware. So I fired up the task manager; took several minutes to load. No applications running but 99% of my CPU was being used so I clicked the process tab and scrolled down the list to see CMS constantly using 99% of my CPU. It had been for 4 hours or since I had started my comp.
So I opened windows add remove programs, killed the CMS process in the task manager and uninstalled it; once it had finally opened and populated it's list. Everything is running fine now.
So please tell me how CMS is a background app that doesn't effect my comp running. Sorry, after 4 hours of it using 99% of my CPU with no apps open; that would be using it, haven't even started Studio or carrara today, I ain't buying it.
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Well obviously it does affect your computer. Sorry to hear. But I can't say that your experience is the norm either. I don't have any issues with the CMS on any of my machines.
So I could say from my experiences the CMS is a background app that doesn't impact my computer performance. I wouldn't dare speak for anyone else though!
Correct, I assume you didn't buy it, you got it for free!
When you call your computer a Gatewayasaurus I'm assuming you think it's very old. So is it any wonder things are going wonky with it?
Still, look on the bright side eh? It gave you yet another thing to gripe about!
Are you running a single core or multicore CPU? If you are running multicore how would you know CMS isn't using 1 at 100%?
Not arguing with you, just curious. If my other comp that is multicore was running, I probably never would have noticed.
No, really I'd love a good explanation for this, but I am pessimistic I will get one. There was no reason for CMS to be running at all, let alone using 100% of my CPU constantly. I have always uninstalled CMS after installing Studio, I just forgot to yesterday. I don't trust CMS and this has done nothing but increased that distrust.
Correct, I assume you didn't buy it, you got it for free!
When you call your computer a Gatewayasaurus I'm assuming you think it's very old. So is it any wonder things are going wonky with it?
Still, look on the bright side eh? It gave you yet another thing to gripe about!
Actually I hate griping, but what am I to do when I am consistently handed reasons to gripe? Check out the spiral graphics forum. I never gripe there because I am never given a reason.
So just what could CMS have been doing; till I killed it, to be using 100% of my CPU?
DAZ has said it's little nothing app running in the back ground, well maybe if you have an i9 and 16 gig it is. But this is a pent 4 2.4 and 1 gig 14 year old gateway, so it running in the background apparently takes my entire CPU.
Was it being blocked by your firewall from querying port 27997?
Because I keep my cpu monitor up and see that all 4 cpus are idle.
If I'm not actively working on something, just browsing the web for example I would notice if the cpu monitor was showing me activity. I'm sensitive to this kind of stuff.
I just launched DS to see if that would change anything, but the CMS is still at 0 cpu utilization. So I don't think it normally eats up a lot of CPU.
And I don't have a high end rig. Just an i5. I also have DS installed on my low end laptops and did not have issues with the CMS. Unfortunately those are not close by for me to test on there, but I don't recall having issues with them either. Certainly not 100% utilization.
Possibly, but zone alarm never came up with a warning. Although if a symptom of that is 100% CPU usage, that would probably be the issue.
Possibly, but zone alarm never came up with a warning. Although if a symptom of that is 100% CPU usage, that would probably be the issue.
It's been a while, but I have a vague recollection that someone encountered it using a noticeable amount of CPU on startup because it keeps trying to check the port for requests, so it's conceivable on an ancient machine that it might take 100%. You could test it by having Zone Alarm allow it to use that port (locally, not internet) and see if that solves it.
Thanks Mike, that is a reasonable explanation.
Thanks larsmidnatt, I like when some one backs up what they have said.
Well that puts me in a bit better mood :-)
@ ManStan no prob.
I had a few minutes to boot up my Gateway laptop. Its an older AMD Dual core supposedly it's 2ghz but runs about as fast as my 1.4gh coreDuo intel laptop. 64bit windows 7.
Using DS 4.5 the content manager was well behaved most of the time. It did spike up to 18% of cpu utilization during DS loading, and sometimes up to 10% when searching with the smart content library (a feature I actually don't normally use, but for this test it made sense). other than that it was mostly at 0 percent utilization, occasionally 2-3%.