cags Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I have a process called agent.exe that keeps getting stuck on 40%+ CPU usage (but oddly seems to use less than 1MB of RAM) and thus causes my computer to lag. I've looked up the process name on Google and apparently there are several different applications that use a thread under this name. How do I work out which one is launching it? I'm currently just closing it, without any perceptual adverse effect but it's bugging me that it keeps re-launching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Its just a software update agent that runs periodically. Just go through your apps like apple quicktime and make sure you take any checks out of boxes that say, 'automatically check for updates' I would also launch msconfig and look through your startup programs. Remove checks from any that you dont know what they are. Background startup apps usually slow shit down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 I must admit avg is getting ridiculous, it's currently got no less than 8 processes running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I must admit avg is getting ridiculous, it's currently got no less than 8 processes running. Is it the free one? Maybe time to get a better AV or tweak the settings, turn all the shit off that you dont need. I use Kaspersky which doesn't cause any problems. It warns when I need to update it so I just set it off when I go for lunch or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 AV ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Yer, it's the free version. It's only using about 8MB of RAM between all the processes, 3 of them are using less than 100K, it just seems stupid that it has 8 separate processes running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 AV ? Antivirus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I must admit avg is getting ridiculous, it's currently got no less than 8 processes running. Starting more processes isn't necessarily bad. If you start Google Chrome and open 10 tabs, you'll likely be running 11 Chrome processes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 I must admit avg is getting ridiculous, it's currently got no less than 8 processes running. Starting more processes isn't necessarily bad. If you start Google Chrome and open 10 tabs, you'll likely be running 11 Chrome processes. True, but I can easily close the Chrome processes, whereas the avg ones seems to act as a mesh network, each time you try to close one, another process relaunches it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 You may want to check out process explorer, can give you more details and kill the entire process tree if you wish. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 You may want to check out process explorer, can give you more details and kill the entire process tree if you wish. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Excellent, I'll take a look, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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