| Subject: | Scheduled Task Processor Utilisation |
| Posted by: | Himji (Him…@discussions.microsoft.com) |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 |
I have a server with four physical (8 hyperthreaded) processors on which I'm
running VBScript as a scheduled task. I've been running the task for about
three months now.
Since Sunday night, the task has been maxing out one of the processors on
the server (I get paged for these) and I can't see why it's doing it. It's
not working any harder than normal and the overall processor activity at this
time is negligible. At the time, the server is not doing much. It's a file
and print server with no users online and the backups have already been
completed. So for what it's worth, the servers doing nothing but running this
script.
The script custom written and could do with some tweaking but I think in the
first instance, I was wondering if we could do anything about making it use
multiple procesors or why it's not doing so if it has the free resources on
the other processors.