High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

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bbcreativo
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High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by bbcreativo »

After looking a film, UMS stays with a heavy load in the Taskmanager in Windows 10,
obviously doing nothing. Of Course the serving works further, but
why is the utilization that much high?
The only way to terminate this, is to kill the Task UMS

What can I do against/for it?

Sorry for my worse english ;)
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Ralms
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by Ralms »

That most likely is UMS transcoding the video you are watching. Sometimes it might keep transcoding for a bit even if you stopped the video.

Not 100% sure, but my UMS has only get to those numbers on this situation.

Check resources usage when when you start UMS and when you start watching a video. If it spikes when you start watching a video its transcoding.

Hope it helps.
Wolfgan
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by Wolfgan »

Ralms wrote:That most likely is UMS transcoding the video you are watching. Sometimes it might keep transcoding for a bit even if you stopped the video.

Not 100% sure, but my UMS has only get to those numbers on this situation.

Check resources usage when when you start UMS and when you start watching a video. If it spikes when you start watching a video its transcoding.

Hope it helps.
In my Win7 installation when UMS is transcoding the CPU usage is attributed to mencoder or ffmpeg... no idea if Win10 differs in that area.
-- UMS serving PS3, WDTV, Samsung H6400 + J5500 and Kalemsoft renderers! (no video transcoding but remuxing accepted :D )
Ralms
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by Ralms »

Wolfgan wrote:
Ralms wrote:That most likely is UMS transcoding the video you are watching. Sometimes it might keep transcoding for a bit even if you stopped the video.

Not 100% sure, but my UMS has only get to those numbers on this situation.

Check resources usage when when you start UMS and when you start watching a video. If it spikes when you start watching a video its transcoding.

Hope it helps.
In my Win7 installation when UMS is transcoding the CPU usage is attributed to mencoder or ffmpeg... no idea if Win10 differs in that area.
Im running UMS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and marks CPU usage in Java too.
bestouf
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by bestouf »

I have kind of the same problem too.

Sometimes UMS take all CPU usage for no reasons.
I have tested allready and it is not due to transcoding because its in seperate process (ffmpeg64.exe in my case).
The problem comes etheir from UMS or JRE.
xotox91
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by xotox91 »

Hello,

is there any solution for this problem? I use UMS on Windows Server 2012 R2. After a short time the CPU usage increase over 50% for do nothing. Furthermore the memory usage increase constantly too. This happens until the memory runs over and then UMS crash. I try nearly all Java versions from 7 to 8 in 32 and 64 Bit. I try the UMS for Java 7 and 8, nothing helps.

For comparison I installed UMS on my Windows 7 PC and use the same config and renderer files from the server. The result: all works perfect, no high memory or CPU usage, no errors. I am at the end of my knowledge. UMS is the perfect program for my application but so I can not use it :(
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Supermanfan77
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Re: High CPU Utilization in Windows 10

Post by Supermanfan77 »

Do any of you run antivirus software with an active scan feature, eg. it scans for any changes to your system as it happens? I was running into this issue where JAVA was taking up high resources when I would first start UMS. To make a long story short I found out it was the active or live scan feature of my antivirus software and that by adding UMS to the exclude list would fix the issue of JAVA and UMS taking up so much power.

Hope this helps you all!
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