How many Processes do you have running at idle for WinXP?

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eecon · #1 Post by **eecon** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:47 pm

Only T60, T60p, T61 or T61p units with WinXP and ATI or Nvidia Cards please.

Use Task Manager>Processes for the poll after at least 10 minutes of idle after startup or reboot.

Thanks

bigdaddyrobb · #2 Post by **bigdaddyrobb** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:28 am

I have been very sloppy with letting services run recently..cleaning them up as we speak.

eecon · #3 Post by **eecon** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:26 pm

bigdaddyrobb wrote:I have been very sloppy with letting services run recently..cleaning them up as we speak.

Let us know the results when you can ... thanks!

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:39 pm

The NUMBER of processes has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING except memory. This comes up OVER and OVER again and is not a useful thread. ... JDH

eecon · #5 Post by **eecon** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:39 pm

jdhurst wrote:The NUMBER of processes has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING except memory. This comes up OVER and OVER again and is not a useful thread. ... JDH

I respect your opinion, however I respectfully beg to differ as I decreased my bootup time by nearly 23 seconds by reducing my listed processes from 70 to 65 yesterday.

That few seconds was the difference between making a last minute trade before the markets closed at 4:00 pm ET yesterday, which saved me nearly $1000 by closing out a position that does not normally trade in the after-market (rather than this morning when the bearish ISM report was inadvertly leaked early pre-market opening .... something that caught a lot of traders by surprise).

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:58 am

eecon wrote:<snip>
I respect your opinion, however I respectfully beg to differ as I decreased my bootup time by nearly 23 seconds by reducing my listed processes from 70 to 65 yesterday.

That few seconds was the difference between making a last minute trade before the markets closed at 4:00 pm ET yesterday, which saved me nearly $1000 by closing out a position that does not normally trade in the after-market (rather than this morning when the bearish ISM report was inadvertly leaked early pre-market opening .... something that caught a lot of traders by surprise).

Fair comment, except that your poll referenced "idle", whereas your comment referenced "boot".

Yes, processes can affect boot time. I have a ton of stuff going at startup and it takes a good 4 minutes for my machine to start. But once running, with 90 processes in play, CPU usage is less than 2 percent well more than 95 percent of the time. And I have lots of free memory left over.

When I need to do something like you described, my machine is already running. ... JDH

eecon · #7 Post by **eecon** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:25 pm

jdhurst wrote:When I need to do something like you described, my machine is already running. ... JDH

I agree