CPU Usage

[Musikaman]

Ok So i noticed that for about the past week the sound would start skipping around on my end, but my listeners were fine. It really annoyed me so i got ahold of an application that will monitor my Cpu Usage... sure enough, with no other CPU intensive programs running, in about 10 minutes it would max out my CPU and start skipping. I've uninstalled EVERYTHING that i installed up to 2 weeks ago. I reloaded my OS, updated to the very latest versions of Winamp, the DSP, and server (was 1 behind on each). I've never had this problem before. I'm absolutley sure i'm running the latest drivers for all my devices. Running WinME on a 333 Celeron 96 MB RAM 100mhz board with 7GB of virtual memory available at a board max of ATA-82. If anyone knows a fix or possible answer please reply to this or send an e-mail to Musikaman@mediaone.net. Thank You.

[dazman]

Perhaps a memory leak.. Try windows 2000 or linux? Im not sure..

[Musikaman]

Well yeah, but the program i use to watch my CPU usage also tells me my free RAM amount... and it actually does shrink as it's sending... but i can clear that with the program and the cpu usage still continues to climb....

[wedgemusic]

It does sound like a memory leak. I would switch to something other than WinME. It really, really, blows :) My favorite Microsoft OS has to be Windows 2000 Advanced Server. It is stable (for Microsoft) and runs pretty well.

[tenkawa]

I am on Windows 2000 Prof Ed. I experience the same problem - to a worse point that it will eventually tie up the CPU cycles so bad that my system simply cannot find free cycles to issue a end program to winamp.

Yeah I tried a million of solutions like re-installing everything: OS, drivers, Winamp, DSP, Shoutcast.... still it didn't solve the problem.

I am on a PII-233 laptop with 64mb of RAM, 4.5GB HDD and win2k prof ed.

Yet to see any solution.

[club977]

Just a quick note. Winamp and Shoutcast do take up some memory and CPU power and I think running Windows 2000 on your computer should have at least 128k of memory anyway. I use Windows 2000 Pro and 128k on a Pentium II 450 and this thing is rock solid. I've been down for a total of a hour (for an upgrade) in the last three months. Windows ME is buggy at best. You could even try Windows 98se and probaly get better results. Good luck I know how frustrating it can be.

[tenkawa]

Originally posted by club977
Just a quick note. Winamp and Shoutcast do take up some memory and CPU power and I think running Windows 2000 on your computer should have at least 128k of memory anyway. I use Windows 2000 Pro and 128k on a Pentium II 450 and this thing is rock solid. I've been down for a total of a hour (for an upgrade) in the last three months. Windows ME is buggy at best. You could even try Windows 98se and probaly get better results. Good luck I know how frustrating it can be.

Perhaps that's the problem - OS is too demanding... because I havd done it in W98se and managed to keep it below 40%. But Win2k wins hands down when it comes to stability vs. 98se. Therefore I am not going back :)

PS: it's 128mb not 128kb... I'd be amazed to see you run win2k w/ 128kb of memory ^__^

[club977]

Sorry...your right 128M...I was talking about 128k streams earlier and I guess my mind was still there. Musikaman, I'd seriously consider upgrading to at least 128 "Megs" of Ram or more if you can afford it and stick with Windows 2000. Tenkawa is right about the stability in Win2K vs 98se. Also don't have a lot of other programs running on your OS when you are broadcasting that might help a little too.

[eareye]

I get the same thing happening with Windows 2000. I can send about 4 or 5 MP3s to the DNAS server (56kbps) at which point, WinAMP will start skipping and sucking up all the resources it can until my computer is pretty much crippled.

If I disconnect the transfer to the DNAS, I can start it again and have no problem for 4 or 5 songs until it does the same thing.

Any clue what could be wrong (and more importantly, how I can fix it)?

Windows 2000 Professional
AMD Athlon 900MHz
256 MB RAM

[eareye]

...read some more posts and found out that webHancer was the culprit. (Can't even remember installing it!) Uninstalled webHancer and Shoutcast runs perfectly! =)

[tenkawa]

Well, I just scoured through my add/remove programs list and I see no WebHancer on my system... I did come across M$ Web Publishing Wizard and killed that. Unfortunately that didn't do a single thing.