cpu usage while using K!TV XP is to high

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

After few seconds the cpu usage (windows xp sp2) increased to
30 percent (with a athlon xp 3200+) and then the tv-show
shortly hang.

Without using any tv-applikations the system sometimes stops for
1 seconds and then it is normal again (like word processing)

Software: Home Version 4.5.523 (all provider enabled)

thanks

2

you could try mainconcept, it probably isn’t an avast! issue

http://www.mainconcept.com/index_noflash.shtml

3

Zivilist, could you post which application is using the CPU (CTRL+ALT+DEL and sort by CPU usage)?
Is it ashServ.exe?

4

Yes it is the ashServ.exe. Every 5-10 seconds.

5

Please check the taskmanager to see if anything is listed under processes that is part of the tv card driver and still is running when you do not use the card. This is a well known problem with several tv card drivers.

6

It may be the VRDB generator. Try disabling it temporarily and see if it helps.

Thanks
Vlk

7

It is not the VRDB because I disable it.
Every time the a-logo twist the cpu process ashServ.exe
use 30 percent. I try to close Outlook 2003 but it is the same
problem.

I think it is the on access scanner for files when switching
to other files.

8

Please check the P2P Shield and IM Shield if the number of scanned files is increasing.

9

no increasing, because P2P Shield and IM Shield not working now (analogue modem user and no flatrate ) :frowning:

10

What if you pause the Standard Shield then? Does it make any difference?

11

yes. Please try it.
It takes very long to check files…
The ashServ.exe takes nearly 20 mb of RAM :-\

Better: try to open something (e.g. a pdf file)
avast! use then one third of the cpu because of the current scanning file

12

I notice that the system only hang when nxtvepg (http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/) is enable and
K!TV is runnig. nxtvepg creates a debug.out file (and avast permanently scanning this file; why?)
So I posted this problem to nxtvepg discussion forum:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=217872 (post in englisch or german)

I hope that avast or nxtvepg-team fix this problem.

13

If you are sure that file doesn’t do any harm (and I believe it isn’t causing any harm), you can add it to Avast’s exclusion list. That would solve the problem if you ask me. :wink:

14

the file is definitively not dangerous. It only a debug file with error messages inside.

Yes I could exclude the file but it is better to find the error.

thanks

15

What are your settings of the Standard Shield?

16

high and in “modify” it’s a default config.

17

So, does it help when you turn off the scanning of “created/modified files”?