Under Vista, after doing the update of Windows, affected by the half second periodic freezes
Vista Home Premium SP2 with all updates.
For about a week now (since the last round of updates or more) my GUI everything will freeze. The mouse stops, all text I type stops, and can contain any game I'm running. This happens regularly (but not constantly) and co incident with the HD LED blinks on the front panel (sometimes).
When I open the Task Manager and moving to different charts, I see normal activity of the CPU to 1%-4% suddenly spike to 50% very briefly. That's when the freeze happens. It doesn't happen all the time however. I see a lot of services are popping up with increased use of the processor but have not been able to establish a correlation between those to whom they are. Most of what I see are simply "svchost" which basically can be anything.
My normal operating mode must have three elements running: Firefox, Thunderbird, and MS Live Messenger. Individually and together, none of them appear to be involved, although I thought that maybe one, or more, can be simply "looking for things. Even without anything going (all programs closed), I can slowly be the mouse on the screen and detect the second gel front of "catch-up". This, I suppose, tells me that the mouse is still playing, but not moved to the screen.
Similarly, if I change a Word document, or a text file, my typing stops at the screen, but when the freeze is finished, it "catches up". However, if I beat the exit screen more of 5 or 6 characters, they get missed completely (I'm a fast typist).
Anyone can shed some light on this? It happens to someone else, or is it just me?
Bill
We seem to have some confusion in terminology. The program from Sysinternals which replaces the task manager's Process Explorer. With that, I would like to keep an eye on interrupts and deferred procedure calls that would indicate a driver problem. Process Monitor gives you a trace of all the system calls that can help find what's going on just before and after the frost. You cannot set to stop on a trigger. There is another tool Sysinternals, ProcDumpTechNet.Microsoft.com/Sysinternals/dd996900,http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900 , that allows you to perform a dump when certain events occur. You then can it analyze with the debugging tools for Windows. Here's an example of it in action: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/08/24/3351213.aspx .
To cause a freeze something must either be maxing out carrots time allowing anything to pre-empt it rather than holding on to a resource which prevents anything else running. For me, the most likely cause would be a pilot.
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