This is surprising. When the disks are not being hit, what is the CPU utilization? What services are running and what processes appear in the Task List?
Normally SCSI subsystems are easy on CPU utilization (at least compared to IDE drives) because of their greater built-in "intelligence". On The Other Hand, if the disks are fast their throughput may be saturating the PCI bus and keeping the CPU busy with bus managment chores.
What kinds of requests are the disks servicing?
When the disks arent busy the cpu usage goes back to zero.
Processes: system idle, system, smss.exe, csrss.exe, winlogon.exe, services.exe, lsass.exe, spoolss.exe, taskmgr.exe, flssrv.exe ntservic.exe, nddeagnt.exe, explorer.exe, loadwc.exe, hpjetdsc.exe, rplsvc.exe, locator.exe, rpcss.exe, atsvc.exe, tapisrv.exe, rasman.exe, tcpsvcs.exe, pstores.exe
Services: alerter, computer browser, eventlog, license logging service, messenger, dhcp server, multispot server (fax), netlogon, nt lm security support provider, plug and play, protected storage, remote access autodial manager, remote access connection manager, RPC locator, RPC service, remoteboot, schedule, server, spooler, tcp/ip netbios helper, telephony & workstation.
The remoteboot is the only thing actually installed that is out of the ordinary. I have 3 dos 6.0 clients on remote boot. However, their demand on the server is nearly nothing. All they do is access maybe 1 or 2 txt files a couple times a day.
This is an HP Netserver LD PRO. Ultra SCSI. My foxapps are really the only things putting a demand on the server. It's just serving up the data tables. It really seems odd to me that my memory is not being utilized hardly at all, but the cpu is getting thrashed. The pagefile is set to 224-274 on drive c. no other pagefile is set. I was doing some reading and was thinking of changing that to 2mb on drive c the minimum. and just watching to see if it started utilizing the memory. From what I read though, it should use the memory first, when that runs out the pagefile kicks in. Somehow, it's not using the memory.
