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WK2Y
WK2Y Member ✭✭
in Computers and Operating Systems

I run my Flex on a Windows 10 desktop computer with an I7 processor and 16gb of ram. I have no issues, but I am curious about the number and different processes that Windows Task Manager shows me. I currently have 129 background processes listed in Task Manager and 98 Windows processes. Is that typical? Is there a utility out there that might tell me how I might gain some efficiencies?

Thanks and 73,

Bob WK2Y

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  • Dan Trainor
    Dan Trainor Member ✭✭✭
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    I recommend GlassWire to visualize your network bandwidth and view programs using network.

    https://www.glasswire.com/features/#bandwidth

  • KD0RC
    KD0RC Member, Super Elmer Moderator
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    Hi Bob, yep, that is typical. My i9 laptop shows numbers that are very close to yours. With SmartSDR, the bottleneck is typically not with the computer, but with the network. So unless you are on an old, slow computer (which you are not), you can rest easy that you don't need to spend time and energy trying to get more performance out of the computer.

    With SmartSDR and CW Skimmer running, I am burning less than 30% of the available CPU resources.

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    With a second skimmer running on Slice B, the CPU utilization goes up to around 35% with peaks to 40%.

    My old i5 laptop ran SmartSDR great, but started to choke on CW Skimmer. It worked, but occasionally paused Skimmer for a couple of seconds. A second instance of Skimmer was out of the question with that computer.

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