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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
Macro Express has a history of memory leaks. From what there is in Google the problems are supposed to be fixed in the version you have but this link may suggest the contrary. http://pgmacros.invisionzone.com/ind...showtopic=3860 Somewhere you commented that to revert to fast mode you needed to reboot. This is a symptom of a memory leak but with so much RAM I am surprised to see a noceable slowdown. Most computers, even those with plenty of RAM, make use of the page file. It would be interested what the pagefile usage is before and after starting Macro Express. You could monitor pagefile usage with this utility. Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to run immediately after start-up and look at the log. Pagefilemon takes snapshots. You need to run it at the beginning of the session at then run it again at intervals throughout the sessions. The log is Pagefile log.txt. If you right click on the file in Windows Explorer and select Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The same applies toXP_PageFileMon.exe. A small utility to monitor pagefile usage: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm Note that programs using undo features, particularly those associated with graphics and photo editing, require large amounts of memory so if you use this type of programme check these first observing how the page usage increases when they start and whether the usage decreases when you close the programme. You can get clues as to what is generating peak memory demands but this is not a precise science, more a matter of judgement. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: ... So while I've labelled the list 'SLOW' I still don't think the Services change when I'm in fast mode. If I ever succeed in catching it quickly enough again before it reverts to slow, I'll take another comparative screenshot. Graham, Macro test switched to fast mode. Here's the promised Services List. http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...9-FastMode.jpg At first glance they seem identical. (On reflection I shouldn't have manually adjusted the columns, so I could then have just compared their respective byte sizes.) --------- Spybot just finished: no threats. Ad-Aware 2008 next. |
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What are these Isass processes?
"Gerry" wrote:
Terry Macro Express has a history of memory leaks. From what there is in Google the problems are supposed to be fixed in the version you have but this link may suggest the contrary. http://pgmacros.invisionzone.com/ind...showtopic=3860 Somewhere you commented that to revert to fast mode you needed to reboot. This is a symptom of a memory leak but with so much RAM I am surprised to see a noceable slowdown. Most computers, even those with plenty of RAM, make use of the page file. It would be interested what the pagefile usage is before and after starting Macro Express. You could monitor pagefile usage with this utility. Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to run immediately after start-up and look at the log. Pagefilemon takes snapshots. You need to run it at the beginning of the session at then run it again at intervals throughout the sessions. The log is Pagefile log.txt. If you right click on the file in Windows Explorer and select Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The same applies toXP_PageFileMon.exe. A small utility to monitor pagefile usage: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm Note that programs using undo features, particularly those associated with graphics and photo editing, require large amounts of memory so if you use this type of programme check these first observing how the page usage increases when they start and whether the usage decreases when you close the programme. You can get clues as to what is generating peak memory demands but this is not a precise science, more a matter of judgement. OK, thanks Gerry, I'll try that. But, as you may have seen from my post in the SysInternals thread, I'm cautiously optimistic! I assume you saw my AV reports etc? I'll forget about Hijack for time being at least. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
OK, thanks Gerry, I'll try that. But, as you may have seen from my post in the SysInternals thread, I'm cautiously optimistic! But I was right to be cautious - slow mode has returned ;-( -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
I was not clear on what basis Terry you had grounds for optimism?
-- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: OK, thanks Gerry, I'll try that. But, as you may have seen from my post in the SysInternals thread, I'm cautiously optimistic! But I was right to be cautious - slow mode has returned ;-( |
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What are these Isass processes?
"Gerry" wrote:
I was not clear on what basis Terry you had grounds for optimism? From http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_...TID=18939&PN=2 "On a cautiously optimistic note, I've so far today had over 3 hours of 'fast mode', the longest ever. The only thing I've done of any significance IMO was to clear my Recycle Bin, which had an unusually high 7 GB. I also wrote another macro that simply moved the mouse cursor across the screen for about 500 pixels, one at a time, repeating 20 times. That ran fast every one of the few score times I tried it. In fact the test macro started running fast roughly around the time of first running the new one. We'll see ..." --------- BUT.... SORTED! I'm delighted to report that at around midnight I finally stumbled across the cause! And to call it 'obscure' would be an understatement. In short it's a bizarre conflict with a great little free program called AWC I've been using for ages. Steve Murphy's Automatic Wallpaper Changer, Version 3.0.8. http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm It simply displays random images from any large folder onto the desktop at chosen intervals. But get this: it's not running the program that causes the slow mode - it's closing it! During this whole saga I've typically closed as much stuff as possible after a fresh re-boot, to help isolate the problem. So amongst other things I would right-click the AWC tray icon and select Exit. The breakthrough last night came when I happened to try my test macro immediately after doing that - and found it slow. I re-loaded AWC: fast. Closed it: slow. Eureka! I've no idea what the underlying cause is. Next step is that I'm off to download the latest version. If that has the same issue I'll post on the forum at http://smurphy.co.uk/board/ Looking forward to doing something else soon! Thanks a bunch for all your support, Gerry. Stay in touch :-) -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
What effect does AWC have on memory usage? What size are the image files being loaded into memory? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: "Gerry" wrote: I was not clear on what basis Terry you had grounds for optimism? From http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_...TID=18939&PN=2 "On a cautiously optimistic note, I've so far today had over 3 hours of 'fast mode', the longest ever. The only thing I've done of any significance IMO was to clear my Recycle Bin, which had an unusually high 7 GB. I also wrote another macro that simply moved the mouse cursor across the screen for about 500 pixels, one at a time, repeating 20 times. That ran fast every one of the few score times I tried it. In fact the test macro started running fast roughly around the time of first running the new one. We'll see ..." --------- BUT.... SORTED! I'm delighted to report that at around midnight I finally stumbled across the cause! And to call it 'obscure' would be an understatement. In short it's a bizarre conflict with a great little free program called AWC I've been using for ages. Steve Murphy's Automatic Wallpaper Changer, Version 3.0.8. http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm It simply displays random images from any large folder onto the desktop at chosen intervals. But get this: it's not running the program that causes the slow mode - it's closing it! During this whole saga I've typically closed as much stuff as possible after a fresh re-boot, to help isolate the problem. So amongst other things I would right-click the AWC tray icon and select Exit. The breakthrough last night came when I happened to try my test macro immediately after doing that - and found it slow. I re-loaded AWC: fast. Closed it: slow. Eureka! I've no idea what the underlying cause is. Next step is that I'm off to download the latest version. If that has the same issue I'll post on the forum at http://smurphy.co.uk/board/ Looking forward to doing something else soon! Thanks a bunch for all your support, Gerry. Stay in touch :-) |
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"Gerry" wrote:
Terry What effect does AWC have on memory usage? What size are the image files being loaded into memory? If I sort by Peak Mem Usage I get this list which shows AWC in a fairly high place: Image Name Peak Mem Usage aawservice.exe 199,360 K firefox.exe 182,692 K SecCopy.exe 6,948 K svchost.exe 30,980 K explorer.exe 55,052 K avgnt.exe 2,280 K avguard.exe 9,340 K AWC.exe 12,500 K agent.exe 30 456 K MailWasher.exe 14,536 K MacExp.exe 13,768 K MacEdit.exe 15,668 K SnagIt32.exe 14,736 K winlogon exe 1,160 K etc BTW, straying OT, that Ad-Aware service puzzles me. Do you have it? I can't see it in my list of XP Services. Autorun shows it as Ad-Aware service Lavasoft c:\program files\lavasoft\ad-aware\aawservice.exe From some admittedly brief googling I still don's see why it needs to be running, do you? I only run my free Ad-Aware every week or so. Back on topic, I've now upgraded AWC to the latest version, 4.5.36. But the issue remains! Of course, I can now avoid it, by not closing the program. But I've posted to the AWC forum and hope to get an answer soon. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Gerry" wrote: Terry What effect does AWC have on memory usage? What size are the image files being loaded into memory? If I sort by Peak Mem Usage I get this list which shows AWC in a fairly high place: Image Name Peak Mem Usage aawservice.exe 199,360 K firefox.exe 182,692 K SecCopy.exe 6,948 K svchost.exe 30,980 K explorer.exe 55,052 K avgnt.exe 2,280 K avguard.exe 9,340 K AWC.exe 12,500 K agent.exe 30 456 K MailWasher.exe 14,536 K MacExp.exe 13,768 K MacEdit.exe 15,668 K SnagIt32.exe 14,736 K winlogon exe 1,160 K etc BTW, straying OT, that Ad-Aware service puzzles me. Do you have it? I can't see it in my list of XP Services. Autorun shows it as Ad-Aware service Lavasoft c:\program files\lavasoft\ad-aware\aawservice.exe From some admittedly brief googling I still don's see why it needs to be running, do you? I only run my free Ad-Aware every week or so. Back on topic, I've now upgraded AWC to the latest version, 4.5.36. But the issue remains! Of course, I can now avoid it, by not closing the program. But I've posted to the AWC forum and hope to get an answer soon. OK, it's in Services under Lavasoft, currently set to Automatic Started. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Gerry" wrote: I was not clear on what basis Terry you had grounds for optimism? From http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_...TID=18939&PN=2 "On a cautiously optimistic note, I've so far today had over 3 hours of 'fast mode', the longest ever. The only thing I've done of any significance IMO was to clear my Recycle Bin, which had an unusually high 7 GB. I also wrote another macro that simply moved the mouse cursor across the screen for about 500 pixels, one at a time, repeating 20 times. That ran fast every one of the few score times I tried it. In fact the test macro started running fast roughly around the time of first running the new one. We'll see ..." --------- BUT.... SORTED! I'm delighted to report that at around midnight I finally stumbled across the cause! And to call it 'obscure' would be an understatement. In short it's a bizarre conflict with a great little free program called AWC I've been using for ages. Steve Murphy's Automatic Wallpaper Changer, Version 3.0.8. http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm It simply displays random images from any large folder onto the desktop at chosen intervals. But get this: it's not running the program that causes the slow mode - it's closing it! During this whole saga I've typically closed as much stuff as possible after a fresh re-boot, to help isolate the problem. So amongst other things I would right-click the AWC tray icon and select Exit. The breakthrough last night came when I happened to try my test macro immediately after doing that - and found it slow. I re-loaded AWC: fast. Closed it: slow. Eureka! I've no idea what the underlying cause is. Next step is that I'm off to download the latest version. If that has the same issue I'll post on the forum at http://smurphy.co.uk/board/ Looking forward to doing something else soon! Thanks a bunch for all your support, Gerry. Stay in touch :-) Graham, I've now installed the latest version of AWC, but am disappointed to find it still gives the same problem. Of course, I can now easily avoid it by not switching it off. But I'd like to get to bottom of it. so I've posted to the AWC forum. If you're interested, AWC (now shareware, full featured for 28 days, then £5.95) is at http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm I'm trying to find a more easily accessible program (maybe built in to XP) that will move the mouse cursor around. I'd like to use it when discussing this behaviour with those like you who don't have Macro Express so can't run my simple macro. Unless of course you trial that too! http://www.macros.com/download.htm -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
What precise version of Ad-Aware do you have? Do you have Ad-Watch? Ad-Aware has provoked controversy in recent years over memory usage. If you want to just use it for the occasional scan it might be advisable to change the StartUp type in Services from Automatic to Manual. The complication could be Ad-Watch, which comes with the non-freeware version and is intended to provide real-time protection. http://lavasoft.com/cms/support/faqs...n-as-a-service I have used the freeware version of Ad-Aware but dropped it as it never found anything of significance. I now use Spybot S & D but I cannot remember it ever finding anything significant on this computer. It has helped with troubleshooting on other computers. Spybot has TeaTimer as an Add-On to provide Real Time Protection. This Add-On uses a lot of memory but it does control registry changes, which can be helpful. TeaTimer does seem to work in a more practical way than the UAC feature included in Vista. However, TeaTimer does not get universal approval. The benefits of protection are not obvious, although avoiding malware infestation on this computer may be helped by it's use. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: "Gerry" wrote: Terry What effect does AWC have on memory usage? What size are the image files being loaded into memory? If I sort by Peak Mem Usage I get this list which shows AWC in a fairly high place: Image Name Peak Mem Usage aawservice.exe 199,360 K firefox.exe 182,692 K SecCopy.exe 6,948 K svchost.exe 30,980 K explorer.exe 55,052 K avgnt.exe 2,280 K avguard.exe 9,340 K AWC.exe 12,500 K agent.exe 30 456 K MailWasher.exe 14,536 K MacExp.exe 13,768 K MacEdit.exe 15,668 K SnagIt32.exe 14,736 K winlogon exe 1,160 K etc BTW, straying OT, that Ad-Aware service puzzles me. Do you have it? I can't see it in my list of XP Services. Autorun shows it as Ad-Aware service Lavasoft c:\program files\lavasoft\ad-aware\aawservice.exe From some admittedly brief googling I still don's see why it needs to be running, do you? I only run my free Ad-Aware every week or so. Back on topic, I've now upgraded AWC to the latest version, 4.5.36. But the issue remains! Of course, I can now avoid it, by not closing the program. But I've posted to the AWC forum and hope to get an answer soon. |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
You do seem to have a plethora of small applications on your computer. If these are loading at Start Up these have the potential to slow performance at Start Up more than Services. It also makes me wonder what affect a programme like Automatic Window Changer has on the rate of file fragmentation. How often do you need to run Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter? 7 gb in the Recycle Bin is a lot. Do you use Disk CleanUp or cCleaner? BTW who is Graham? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: "Gerry" wrote: I was not clear on what basis Terry you had grounds for optimism? From http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_...TID=18939&PN=2 "On a cautiously optimistic note, I've so far today had over 3 hours of 'fast mode', the longest ever. The only thing I've done of any significance IMO was to clear my Recycle Bin, which had an unusually high 7 GB. I also wrote another macro that simply moved the mouse cursor across the screen for about 500 pixels, one at a time, repeating 20 times. That ran fast every one of the few score times I tried it. In fact the test macro started running fast roughly around the time of first running the new one. We'll see ..." --------- BUT.... SORTED! I'm delighted to report that at around midnight I finally stumbled across the cause! And to call it 'obscure' would be an understatement. In short it's a bizarre conflict with a great little free program called AWC I've been using for ages. Steve Murphy's Automatic Wallpaper Changer, Version 3.0.8. http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm It simply displays random images from any large folder onto the desktop at chosen intervals. But get this: it's not running the program that causes the slow mode - it's closing it! During this whole saga I've typically closed as much stuff as possible after a fresh re-boot, to help isolate the problem. So amongst other things I would right-click the AWC tray icon and select Exit. The breakthrough last night came when I happened to try my test macro immediately after doing that - and found it slow. I re-loaded AWC: fast. Closed it: slow. Eureka! I've no idea what the underlying cause is. Next step is that I'm off to download the latest version. If that has the same issue I'll post on the forum at http://smurphy.co.uk/board/ Looking forward to doing something else soon! Thanks a bunch for all your support, Gerry. Stay in touch :-) Graham, I've now installed the latest version of AWC, but am disappointed to find it still gives the same problem. Of course, I can now easily avoid it by not switching it off. But I'd like to get to bottom of it. so I've posted to the AWC forum. If you're interested, AWC (now shareware, full featured for 28 days, then £5.95) is at http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/download.htm I'm trying to find a more easily accessible program (maybe built in to XP) that will move the mouse cursor around. I'd like to use it when discussing this behaviour with those like you who don't have Macro Express so can't run my simple macro. Unless of course you trial that too! http://www.macros.com/download.htm |
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What are these Isass processes?
"Gerry" wrote:
Terry You do seem to have a plethora of small applications on your computer. If these are loading at Start Up these have the potential to slow performance at Start Up more than Services. It also makes me wonder what affect a programme like Automatic Window Changer has on the rate of file fragmentation. How often do you need to run Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter? 7 gb in the Recycle Bin is a lot. Do you use Disk CleanUp or cCleaner? I run Diskeeper in smart mode daily. Don't think AWC should affect fragmentation - it;s not writing anything. BTW who is Graham? Sorry, another correspondent, my slip! -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
Never felt the need to buy a Defragmenter. Freeware versions work fine. How do you manage to co-ordinate Disk CleanUp or cCleaner to run before Diskeeper runs? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: "Gerry" wrote: Terry You do seem to have a plethora of small applications on your computer. If these are loading at Start Up these have the potential to slow performance at Start Up more than Services. It also makes me wonder what affect a programme like Automatic Window Changer has on the rate of file fragmentation. How often do you need to run Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter? 7 gb in the Recycle Bin is a lot. Do you use Disk CleanUp or cCleaner? I run Diskeeper in smart mode daily. Don't think AWC should affect fragmentation - it;s not writing anything. BTW who is Graham? Sorry, another correspondent, my slip! |
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"Gerry" wrote:
Terry Never felt the need to buy a Defragmenter. Freeware versions work fine. How do you manage to co-ordinate Disk CleanUp or cCleaner to run before Diskeeper runs? Gerry, Not sure what you mean? I don't 'co-ordinate'. Diskeeper runs daily as I said, much more frequently than CCleaner. Here's a short movie I made for my discussion with Insight Software (ME developers) showing the effects of AWC closing - on the ME Pro macro (slows it down) - on the Recorder macro (doesn't affect it) http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s...MEPProblem.flv -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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What are these Isass processes?
Terry
It is a waste of of time defragment "rubbish", which is what you are doing if you defragment without removing the rubbish first. Likewise if you cleanup and don't defragment you will immediately have a fragmented volume. Just my reading of the situation. Your movie is too complicated for my simple mind to understand. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry Pinnell wrote: "Gerry" wrote: Terry Never felt the need to buy a Defragmenter. Freeware versions work fine. How do you manage to co-ordinate Disk CleanUp or cCleaner to run before Diskeeper runs? Gerry, Not sure what you mean? I don't 'co-ordinate'. Diskeeper runs daily as I said, much more frequently than CCleaner. Here's a short movie I made for my discussion with Insight Software (ME developers) showing the effects of AWC closing - on the ME Pro macro (slows it down) - on the Recorder macro (doesn't affect it) http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s...MEPProblem.flv |
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