What I am trying to do is increase the cpu usage, as seen in Win Task Manager, to a higher value. If I understand correctly, and I emphasize if, the process in which a program “calls” on the cpu for computing power and/or sends threads to the cpu can be altered; can avast be altered or increased in this way? I guess the correct ? here should be “is avast a multithreaded application”? I can not set the priority of the process ashSimpl.exe to realtime. If I understand correctly an application that can utilize ex. 90% of the cpu is a multithreaded app. used on a cpu that can be multithreaded. When I run a scan the cpu usage stats in Win Task Man. differ between 00, 02, 03 and every now and then maybe 49. I would like to see a continual 80 or 90. My cpu, ram and fsb are high speed. I have the horsepower, how can I use it? I even close explorer and any other high ram and cpu using programs. Then again I may be approaching this horribly wrong or my understanding of how programs communicate in this form to the cpu is ignorant. I have limited IT knowledge, but more than the average. As far as mutilthreading, kernal, calling, and all that stuff is concerned is my goal reachable or better yet even feasible? Thanks for any responses!!! Have a great Day peeps!
No, I’m afraid you can’t do anything about it, certainly not in avast! 4.x.
However, as the “horsepower” goes - the slowest link is usually the harddisk, not capable of supplying data fast enough. So, it doesn’t really matter how much or fast CPUs you have, the scan won’t be significantly faster.
igor but can you guys later add an option in avast to control its RAM usage to speed up the scan I was thinking of that because if it is using less resources and can be faster than 4.8 then if it uses more it can scan faster
Oops I guess mine is like the same thing above if not useful please delete my post
Thanks for the replies guys! Being that this software is designed primarily to scan hard disks igor makes perfect sense that the speed between the discs and board would greatly influence the time taken to complete a scan. I will also try defragmenting before large thorough scans as well.
I didn’t really want to sound as if I was complaining, but more for educational purposes. I am actually running a scan as I type this. Being that time isn’t a issue now, I thought I would post the ?. In response to pondus, this specific scan includes 2 internal hard drives (about a TB) where roughly 40% is data, 2 externals (550GB) 75% is data. SATA3 is great for the internals, but usb 2.0 is all I can get for the 2 externals which prompted the scan in the first place. Just thought I would do the whole machine. Thanks again for the prompt replies avast users, love the software!
