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    #1

    CPU 100% utillization

    Am having trouble with Alpha (just as of today) using 100% CPU utilization.... this is new, and I did do some major devp. work last night... am stumpted!
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    #2
    RE: CPU 100% utillization

    Are you using Win2000 or NT?

    Wonder if this could be solved with powermon?

    Search this board for powermon to see what I'm referring to.

    -- tom

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      #3
      RE: CPU 100% utillization

      thanks.. I found that after I posted this... will try that.
      I am using windows 2000
      ... one particular form is very slow.. only on my system - the rest of the users are fine... very strange

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        #4
        RE: CPU 100% utillization

        Check your anti-virus software. To test, disaable it completely and open the app. I've seen Norton 2001 open forms and run brutally slow, especially slow when other users have the same tables already opened.

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          #5
          RE: CPU 100% utillization

          I had a similar problem and it turned out be be a virus. W5chi.1003a or something like that. If you have virus software installed it probably would have caught it. Just a thought.

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            #6
            RE: CPU 100% utillization

            Kevin,

            I have noticed the same thing as you have; 100% CPU usage from the moment I open a database to the moment I close it. (Windows 2000 Pro.)

            The only time that this isn't the case is when a message box is being displayed and is waiting for me to press 'OK'.

            The only problem that I believe this has caused is that forms, dialogs and even the Alpha main window refreshing and persistance on screen after they have been closed are all caused or seriously exacerbated by this. (At least it's the only thing I've been able to think of that might cause it; on several different machines, through two different operating systems.)

            I know that I have no virus and that this thing -- at least at my end -- hasn't seemed to change as my systems and OS's have over the last few years...

            Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, Bub.

            Best regards,

            Geoff Hollander

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              #7
              RE: CPU 100% utillization

              Geof.. thanks for the reply
              I was not convinced powermon or an antivirus software fix were part of the solution.. as I had not changed either before the problem started...

              Instead I went snooping in the file system
              I found $$2f0000.mpx and $$2a0600.mpx which looked like they were getting update everytime I used the app. So deleted them and go my snappy performance back on the paticular form

              I dont know if it was directly related.. (cause/effect) but I am a happy camper.. 100%.. .but NO noticable slowdown anywhere within A5 or in other apps

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                #8
                RE: CPU 100% utillization

                The mpx files are what Alpha creates when queries are done.Alpha does queries when reports are printed, queries are enacted, forms are opened that have form filters and other times.Point being is that they will come back. In settings see if delte all queries on exit is checked.

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                  #9
                  RE: CPU 100% utillization

                  there is a thread on this, and Cian reported that they had found the source, and have offered an option with ver 5 that will turn it off
                  Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
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                    #10
                    RE: CPU 100% utillization

                    excellent! thanks

                    looking forward to version 5

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