On 17-2-2014 12:40, Stephen wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>>> It might have been a core stuck in a loop and it just needed a re-boot. You
>>> never can tell.
>>
>> You can get task manager to show the CPU usage for each core
>> (Performance -> View -> CPU History -> One Graph Per CPU), it should
>> then be obvious if any of the cores are stuck in a loop.
>
> I did not mean it literally. :-)
> One of the irritations with my current, i7 laptop, is. Regularly the system'
> process will use 13% ~ 25% of the recourses and the machine will be very
> sluggish. But you never see a core maxed out.
> You do with PovRay, though. :-)

My i7 PC does that too sometimes. It seems to have to do with some 
arcane Windows process... I checked with the task manager and one or 
another process was active.

Thomas

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