Re: [Syllable-kernel] Possible scheduler patch

[Jarret R <ja...@le...>]

Anthony Jacques wrote:
> Recently at work, under Windows XP I've been suffering from a process 
> that 99.9% of the time is sleeping, but about twice a day it kicks in 
> and uses 100% CPU for about 2 mins, and then goes back to sleep. 
> Unfortunately it starves most of the other processes, making my machine 
> practically unusable while its happening. Note that the process is 
> constantly running - its lifespan is since the last time the machine was 
> rebooted.

As a side note, this is probably a virus or spyware. Download ad-aware, 
spybot and avg to get rid of it :). Unless you know what the process is, 
of course.


Jarret