powerarchiver starter 2021 high cpu usage
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I recently installed PA 2021. But the PowerArchiver Starter, for my backups, keeps running at high CPU usage, I have to keep killing it, its running about 46% constantly.
I have Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, build 19042.662
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
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Hi @nlm
Are you running a certain operation through PA Starter that starts the CPU Spike?
We have tested starting a backup job through PA starter, which did not increase the CPU consumption of PA starter.
Let us know which steps you take when it happens and we will attempt to reproduce the issue using those steps.Thanks!
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No operations were started by it. It is running so my weekly backup can run. I just manually run PAStarter, wait a few minutes, then it hits 20 - 50 % CPU cycles and stays there for at least 5 minutes, I close the app after that because its using the cpu to much.
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Hi @nlm
Have tested this by having PASTARTER.EXE turned on for a couple of days now. Ran some backups through PA Starter for testing and it has consistently stated at 0% CPU usage, as in below screenshot.
Is there an anti-virus program active that might be causing it?Thanks!
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I have another thread,
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/6288/powerarchiver-queue-made-worse
PAStarter is used for queuing mostly. and for quicker launch
I do have some CPU utilization as per video, but no compression was going on.
As, in 2000kb of RAM usage, you cannot compress anything
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I disabled my AntiVirus, just to see, didn’t help. A couple of things, w/my last version PA2019 I didn’t have this problem. Also, I keep thinking I could right click on the PAStarter in the past and open up to PowerArchiver, but I can’t seem to do this with the new version. I tried running as Admin, same issue.
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@Mili
Can you please post screenshot of the PA version that you are using from about? -
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In regards to the last reply, I just started PAStarter and it had been running for about a minute, and its very high even when its not doing anything.
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Ok, I should have done this first. I upgraded to PA 2021, instead of uninstalling and reinstalling. I did that now, and it took care of the problem. Must have been something with upgrading from the previous version too the new one.