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Forum Thread: PSI slows computer
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Secunia PSI - Feedback and Questions
| Left Coast Bernard
| PSI slows computer
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by Left Coast Bernard on 13th Dec, 2008 10:37, last edited on 13th Dec, 2008 10:38
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Posts: 8
User Since: 13th Dec, 2008
Secunia System Score: 100%
Location: Encinitas near San Diego, US |
When I had version 0.9 I hardly noticed PSI.exe doing anything, except when I asked it to scan or when I was added or removing software.
I installed the new 1.0.
Now on task monitor I see psi.exe running and using significant cpu resources at all times.
This makes my computer feel as if it were filled with molasses.
I improved the situation by manually changing psi.exe's priority to Low.
But it seems that there should be a better solution, and the Secunia engineers might want to look into making the new version more polite.
Thanks. I like the program, and its helped me clean up a lot of old junk.
I'm running XP, service pack 3. |
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| YoKenny
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by YoKenny on 13th Dec, 2008 12:13
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Posts: 306
User Since: 23rd Dec, 2007
Secunia System Score: 100%
Location: Ont. , CA |
How much RAM does the system have and what is the CPU and its speed?
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1. Windows 7, 64bit, 4GB RAM, avast! V5 beta3, Browser Defender™
2. XP Pro SP3, 32bit, 768MB RAM, avast! V5 beta3 Pro, Browser Defender™
with IE8, MBAM, and WinPatrol PLUS |
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| Left Coast Bernard
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by Left Coast Bernard on 13th Dec, 2008 16:28
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Posts: 8
User Since: 13th Dec, 2008
Secunia System Score: 100%
Location: Encinitas near San Diego, US |
My machine is an older one. P III 500 MHz with 650 MB of RAM.
The earlier version of PSI didn't seem cause it problems.
The newer version seems to do using 20 or 30 % of the CPU power all the time.
So, what is it doing? |
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| YoKenny
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by YoKenny on 13th Dec, 2008 20:14
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Posts: 306
User Since: 23rd Dec, 2007
Secunia System Score: 100%
Location: Ont. , CA |
on 13th Dec, 2008 16:28, Left Coast Bernard wrote:
My machine is an older one. P III 500 MHz with 650 MB of RAM.
The earlier version of PSI didn't seem cause it problems.
The newer version seems to do using 20 or 30 % of the CPU power all the time.
So, what is it doing?
I have an old PIII that I rescued from my apartment's recycle area and it runs IE8 and Opera 10 quite well but real slow so I have patience with it as it was free except for the XP license I purchased for it.
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1. Windows 7, 64bit, 4GB RAM, avast! V5 beta3, Browser Defender™
2. XP Pro SP3, 32bit, 768MB RAM, avast! V5 beta3 Pro, Browser Defender™
with IE8, MBAM, and WinPatrol PLUS |
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| Left Coast Bernard
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by Left Coast Bernard on 13th Dec, 2008 20:33
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Posts: 8
User Since: 13th Dec, 2008
Secunia System Score: 100%
Location: Encinitas near San Diego, US |
Well, I'm patient too, and I usually have a good book and classical music on Internet radio.
But it seems to me that the CPU loading from psi changed between version 0.9 and version 1.0.
Besides, I understand, I think, what psi is supposed to be doing, after its initial scans, and I don't see why it would be using significant resources.
Isn't it just keeping an eye out for newly installed software (potential malware if I haven't done installed something that I know about) and newly removed software?
When I manually, through task manager, tell the system to lower psi's priority from Normal to Low, my system runs noticeably better, and the apparent cpu time devoted to psi.exe goes way down.
What do you suppose that the clever Danish engineers did between version 0.9 and 1.0 that might cause this?
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| Friendly Dutch
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by Friendly Dutch on 14th Dec, 2008 15:58
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User Since: 4th Jan, 2008
Secunia System Score: N/A
Location: N/A |
Yes, I also notice (a hughe amount of registry accesses by PSI version 1.0.0.1. It doesn't affect my PC too much but why is this necessary?
I was running ProcessMon (Microsoft/SysInternals) when I noticed psi.exe continuously accessing the Registry. Program Monitoring is turned off. No scan is running. I only have the PSI GUI open to review the results from the last scan.
Windows XP Prof SP3
P 4 CPU 240Ghz
2.39 GHz 2.50 GB of RAM |
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| BigDave_39
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by BigDave_39 on 14th Dec, 2008 17:12
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User Since: 26th Nov, 2008
Secunia System Score: N/A
Location: Washington, DC, US |
For what its worth. I'm running 1.0.0.1 as well, but I have yet to experience any type of slowdown or resource hawking. It works perfectly here with a 0% cpu usage (when running in the background) and ~30MB of memory usage, which by my standards is perfectly acceptable.
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| dtolley
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by dtolley on 4th Feb, 2009 05:38, last edited on 4th Feb, 2009 05:38
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User Since: 4th Feb, 2009
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Have the same problem, psi.exe process frequently using almost 100% of he CPU. Uninstalled PSI v 1 and all is well again. Had no problems with the beta version. OS = XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Version 2002, SP 3. Processor = Pentium M 900MHz. RAM = 1GB |
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| SirMax
| RE: PSI slows computer
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by SirMax on 19th Jul, 2009 00:06
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User Since: 18th Jul, 2009
Secunia System Score: N/A
Location: Ventura, US |
I am running it on Foxconn NF4UK8AA Series w/
DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2100 MHz.
Each time I make a change (ignore some program) it locks then runs and locks up again.
It does this every-time I make any changes to the listing.
During scans, it runs fine on the cpu which stays at
around 48% and memory at 100,332K
-Max |
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