On 1/27/03 7:22 AM, "Hector Luna" <polonius19 at cox.net> wrote: > on 1/27/03 6:09 AM, Loren Schooley at loren at flash.net wrote: > >> On 1/27/03 6:47 AM, "Hector Luna" <polonius19 at cox.net> wrote: >> >>> cpu remains pegged at 100%. >> >> Why don't you look at top? >> > I do. Top identifies User usage and System usage. The percentages in Top add > up to what I see as User usage, usually 20 - 30%, the rest is used up by the > System, but I don't know how to find out what background processes are > running. I've even used the process monitor, but that didn't give me more > info than top. If your cpu is showing 100% for some reason, top or PM will identify the cause of it.