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Causes intermittent freezing, high disk activity with no throughput, drop in CPU usage #587

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
N/A

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.0 Beta, on Win7 Home Premium SP1

Please provide any additional information below.
-First, I'd like to say this program seems fantastic.  Previously I had used 
coretemp, but this one looks much nicer.  I began noticing some odd problems 
while playing DayZ recently though.  While in-game, I would get intermittent 
freezing for several seconds, sometimes 10 or more, on a roughly 30 second 
repeating interval.  By using resource monitor, I noticed during every freeze, 
CPU usage dropped to 0% from 100% rapidly, disk activity spiked to 100%, yet no 
data was being written, as if the HDD was just being spun around.  Searched the 
web high and low, updated drivers, scanned for viruses, tested ram, tested my 
hdd, then luckily I stumbled across one small forum post on tomshardware where 
someone stated "I had a problem like this on my desktop with temperature 
polling software. Do you have anything like HWMonitor running?" Immediately 
exited OHM, and the problem disappeared.  Sad but true, I cannot use this 
program due to some bug that is probably related to intermittent HDD polling. 

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by Krb...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2014 at 2:58