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<blockquote data-quote="porky996t" data-source="post: 762131" data-attributes="member: 75318">[USER=10858]tourettes[/USER]I have switched to an Aero theme that just has a basic, non-changing background. Still giving a blip every 27-30 secs though.[USER=97516]Vasilich[/USER]Is ProcessExplorer part of win7? - looks useful. - EDIT now installedI Googled Process explorer and installed it. After watching it for some time I have noticed that every time there are the regular frame drops, there is a large spike in CPU usage, and also a large spike in I/O throughput. Looking the various processes running and listed according to CPU usage the top two are &quot;System Idle Process&quot; and &quot;MediaPortal.exe&quot; (these are constantly swapping&nbsp; top place in the list). When there is a spike (dropped frames) the process named &quot;mysqld.exe&quot; jumps to the top of the CPU usage list. This is happening at the same time as the CPU spike and the I/O spike and it does this every time.Clearly this is the MySQL Database - should it be causing this??</blockquote>

[QUOTE="porky996t, post: 762131, member: 75318"] [USER=10858]tourettes[/USER] I have switched to an Aero theme that just has a basic, non-changing background. Still giving a blip every 27-30 secs though. [USER=97516]Vasilich[/USER] Is ProcessExplorer part of win7? - looks useful. - EDIT now installed I Googled Process explorer and installed it. After watching it for some time I have noticed that every time there are the regular frame drops, there is a large spike in CPU usage, and also a large spike in I/O throughput. Looking the various processes running and listed according to CPU usage the top two are "System Idle Process" and "MediaPortal.exe" (these are constantly swapping top place in the list). When there is a spike (dropped frames) the process named "mysqld.exe" jumps to the top of the CPU usage list. This is happening at the same time as the CPU spike and the I/O spike and it does this every time. Clearly this is the MySQL Database - should it be causing this?? [/QUOTE]

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