CPU Utilization

Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu Feb 06, 1997 2:45 pm

Using Windows NT 4.0, IIS3, Webinator commerical, I notice that
CPU utilization hits the roof (90, sometimes 100%)
when the user selects "more like this" (170,000
files indexed).

Is there a way to limit the available CPU time for webinator?
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Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu Feb 06, 1997 3:12 pm

Larry Rudner said:

There is no way to explicitly limit CPU time in Webinator. If the CPU
utilization stays pegged high for a long time then you might want to
check and make sure that the indexes are up to date. Otherwise if the
CPU load briefly goes to 100%, and then the results come back that seems
like ideal behaviour. Windows NT should be task switching any other tasks,
and the 100% CPU utilization simply means it is not waiting for the disk,
so it is generating the answer as fast as possible, which is the goal of
the program.

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu Feb 06, 1997 4:45 pm

100% of the CPU is what NT is supposed to give the Webinator if
it is the only thing that is asking for a slice. IE; It's not
a problem unless NT is for some reason unwilling to give
CPU time to other processes that require time.

Is it killing the rest of the machine while it searches?