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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:00:17 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: System Activity Monitor wierd

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> Ray Davison wrote:
> >
> > > start closing things until it settles down
> >
> > Close until Ctrl-Esc shows only Desktop
> > and Warpcenter, no change.
>
> Hmm.
>
> I should have mentioned to run PSTAT /C after closing everything, to
> make sure there aren't any hidden processes (like the elephant) running

Ran TOP. Used it to close ARTCHRON.EXE which as I understand is the
elephant. Still a substantial number of EXE running. PSTAT shows much
the same.

> If you have a maintenance partition and you boot to it, do you still see
> the pulses

No OS/2 maint part.
>
> If you really want to chase this down you can look for an I/O device
> that's using cycles. You can REM out drivers and/or unplug the devices'
> power feeds. Can you hear any disk activity when the pulses appear?
>
> How high are the pulses

Full scale and one tick wide.
>

Ray

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