Mysterious performance lag from time to time


  1. mcored
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    Mysterious performance lag from time to time


    Hi all
    I have been experiencing this weird performance lag from time to time.

    Please see the screencast: https://lambda.sx/H6r.mp4

    At the beginning, you will see my attempt to drag the Task Manager to the recording area but laptop is too busy doing something so Task Manager drag did not respond.

    You will also see lag when clicking each tab in Task Manager.

    CPU usage seems fine.
    Memory usage seems fine.

    I just can't figure out what the problem is.

    What could it be?

    Thanks
    Michael
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  3. Edwin
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    @mcored , welcome to tenforums.com! :)
    I don't know how much RAM you have or how dedicated it is, but, looking at your system tray, you've got a lot going on there, not to mention, your screen recording app, a huge resource hog, which makes your screencast vid a little biased!
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  4. Cliff S
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    @Edwin his machine has more than enough RAM, and in the video, the potential recourses are not even being touched, it must be something else.
    Mysterious performance lag from time to time-image.png
    @mcored welcome to Ten Forums,
    the video shows your user account, so unless that is only an alias(throw away) account, you might want to consider taking it down and redoing it or at least pixelating the account(under the users tab).

    My question: are you using a hard disk or an SSD?
    AHCI or IDE set in BIOS?

    I ask because like I said above your RAM & CPU resources are hardly even being touched, so too much going on can't be the reason:
    Mysterious performance lag from time to time-image.png

    Have you tried another mouse?
    Have you checked it's sensitivity settings?
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  6. mcored
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    Hi Cliff S, thank you! That's indeed just a temporary account.

    I used to have 2 x SSD (Samsung Evo 950). I think the problem was the existing version of NVIDIA video card drivers.
    For others, if you have a similar issue, I would ask to consider updating the video card drivers. Problem appears to have disappeared (for now).
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  7. Cliff S
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    mcored said:
    Hi Cliff S, thank you! That's indeed just a temporary account.

    I used to have 2 x SSD (Samsung Evo 950). I think the problem was the existing version of NVIDIA video card drivers.
    For others, if you have a similar issue, I would ask to consider updating the video card drivers. Problem appears to have disappeared (for now).
    Glad to hear it was solved(hopefully permanently):)
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