zigmund Posted April 7, 2008 When SAS is running, computer at a crawl, for an extended time. SAS says it has been running for over 3 hours, the timer is till incrementing, and CPU still 100%, 3.06GHz Celeron-D, 4GB Crucial RAM, XP Pro 64bit. Task manager confirms that the offending process is SAS. Right click shows this process is running at normal priority, and CPU is at 100%, SAS hitting around 98%. Right click allows me to set priority to Low. CPU still at 100% but PC now responds normally, much faster. So I assume setting SAS to low priority still allows it 100% CPU when nothing else is being done, but other activities can take priority, which is why PC goes faster. Is there a registry hack where I can set SAS process priority, or better still in SAS options? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUPERAntiSpy Posted April 7, 2008 When SAS is running, computer at a crawl, for an extended time.SAS says it has been running for over 3 hours, the timer is till incrementing, and CPU still 100%, 3.06GHz Celeron-D, 4GB Crucial RAM, XP Pro 64bit. Task manager confirms that the offending process is SAS. Right click shows this process is running at normal priority, and CPU is at 100%, SAS hitting around 98%. Right click allows me to set priority to Low. CPU still at 100% but PC now responds normally, much faster. So I assume setting SAS to low priority still allows it 100% CPU when nothing else is being done, but other activities can take priority, which is why PC goes faster. Is there a registry hack where I can set SAS process priority, or better still in SAS options? Uncheck the DDA (Direct Disk Access) in the Scanning Control - does that still have the 3 hour scan time? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites