If Leaving an unattended FOLDER, Check Taskmanager!

OK, first, thankfully this happened just last night and NOT when I was out of town but it very well could have. If any of you have unattended folders, it is very wise to restart them before you leave them, and check the task manager to make sure there isn't something eating up cycles.

Last night when i left my office (yeah I know I work WAY too much) I closed all my apps like I normally do except for EMIII and MBM. When I came in this morning, EMIII said that my frame time for a P541 was like over 8 hours!!! I was like, WTF? Even with optimizations off, frame times would only be like 20mins. I fired up the task manager and saw that ieexplorer was stuck in some sort of loop and taking up 99% of the CPU! Check out my log noting the frame time between 73 and 74:

[04:44:14] Completed 330000 out of 500000 steps (66)
[04:49:59] Writing local files
[04:49:59] Completed 335000 out of 500000 steps (67)
[04:56:02] Writing local files
[04:56:02] Completed 340000 out of 500000 steps (68)
[05:01:50] Writing local files
[05:01:50] Completed 345000 out of 500000 steps (69)
[05:07:35] Writing local files
[05:07:35] Completed 350000 out of 500000 steps (70)
[05:13:22] Writing local files
[05:13:22] Completed 355000 out of 500000 steps (71)
[05:19:12] Writing local files
[05:19:12] Completed 360000 out of 500000 steps (72)
[05:24:59] Writing local files
[05:24:59] Completed 365000 out of 500000 steps (73)
[13:46:03] Writing local files
[13:46:06] Completed 370000 out of 500000 steps (74)

Bottom line is always MAKE SURE it is the core using all your cycles, not some unwanted POS!!!

I have had similar problems myself, and I agree with your suggestion to check your Frame times (and CPU usage) frequently.

There is a rig in my house that starts up with ieexplorer at 99% usage. It has to be shut down before the taskbar will come up. It's an XP system. Could this be a virus??

(ieexplorer-sounds dodgy. ) I thought it was just explorer.

It certainly might be. I have W2K (not XP) and Internet Explorer is IEXPLORER not IEEXPLORER.

Search your Startup Folder and your Scheduled Tasks, and see if it is listed in either of these places. You could also try deleting or renaming the file and see if that prevents it from running.

On windows XP Pro IE comes up as iexplore not ieexplore.

Axle

Yeh this happened to me today also.....when i came back from school im like "WTF ONLY 2 FRAMES COMPLETED?!?!??!?!" i was really ****ed coz i could have had this current wu done by now

Hmm...i think it actually may be something in the application...noting the writing local files...so the application must be doing something different/odd/wrong

Hmm...maybe someone could post on the community boards about this? (I currently dont have a membership there..=\)

'Gumpy

Not unusual to see IE going 99% now and then... especially on networks where it gets stuck disconnecting from shares etc. I see it ocasionally.

Just gotta love MS

Flix

ieexplorer.exe is dodgy ground, certainly....

Run a virus-scan, or search for ieexplore.exe, and see where its' located...

i just searched www.sarc.com, no results for "ieexplore" or "ieexplore.exe".....searches on google reveal foreign sites and/or missleppings.....

prolly not a virus, unless it's really really new....

every once and a while (maybe 1-2x a week) on my dually i will see that one of the SVCHOST.EXE's is up at 50% (100% of one of my cpu's) this ****es me off...but the outlet it is plugged into is a little buggy...since the wiring in most of my house is old

anyway, the whole computer is really wacked when its down here (i move it up into my room and back down here every day ) and i cant even sign off the internet without it not wanting to close anything or even shut down correctly after i eventually am able to close all the programs (it hangs at "saving bla bla bla" while shutting down)

this is with XP btw, and im not really sure it has anything to do with what you are talking about but what the hay!