CPU usage

[florin]

Hi all,

My scenario: EA 8 under Win7 using MsSql 2008 as a backend.
Currently EA takes about 50% of CPU usage on a Intel i5, 4 core CPU when "idle" in the background. About the same CPU consumption when editing diagrams.

There are no add-ins installed.

Any reason for this? And a way to reduce the resource consumption?

Thanks,
florin

[Geert Bellekens]

Florin,

On my machine (XP 2 core with EA 8.0) EA consumes nothing when I not working on it.
I can't really think of anything it could be doing if you are not working on it.

Geert

[florin]

Using process explorer i can see that there are 6 thread running, (2xntdll.dll, 1xgdiplu.dll and 3xEA.exe). From these there are 2 of the threads running from EA.exe, the 2nd and 3rd as the start address, each using about 25% of CPU.

[florin]

Seems to be a false alarm. There was a hanged EA which was the cause. After closing the "good" instance and killing the hanging EA process, seems to work ok.