Ryzen unusual load in core0

wardog wrote: In that pic, click on CPU to sort till you see the process(es) that are using that 7%

no one process is using that 7% which fluctuates like normal, it's just the total of various processes using 1-2%

Turned windows updates off completely yesterday and this morning core 0 looked normal.

I want to give it another day to be sure, but this seems most likely to be solved now.

Thanks a lot wardog!


Edited by mxpie - 23 Mar 2017 at 9:10pm

mxpie wrote: wouldn't the culprit process show in windows task manager though? alright I'll do an experiment for tomorrow.  I'll completely turn updates off and see what it's doing in the morning.  If core 0 is still under high load I'll unplug ethernet and see if that frees it up. I never had this issue on my last system I just upgraded from though.

Was you last system a Ryzen system? So how can you compare the two, particularly with a completely new platform (Ryzen) that is clearly still in the early, find and fix the bugs and issues phase. Ryzen has a while to go before it has decent stabili, which is still not 100%... if that is ever reached on any system.

I'm also not sure about the Windows update process continuing non-stop and using a core non-stop. The article said the Windows update process for 7 and 8.1 would get an error message:


After that, is the Windows update process continuing to try to get updates? Where is that error message being written? Multiple messages over and over on the same day?

A more basic explanation is, as seen above, Unsupported hardware for Windows 8.1.

One look at your screenshot tells it all. Why is the Windows core scheduler only using one core? Eight cores are available. You've got 0% usage on all the other seven cores! No wonder you have a frame rate reduction and even lag in your browser. You are effectively running a single core processor! You don't have the Core/Thread usage shown in HWiNFO, do you have two threads running in the one core?

I have a mere quad core processor in my Z270 PC, and all four cores are doing a little something most of the time. I have never seen anything like your screenshot. One core out of eight is the only one active? When one core is loaded, another should immediately be used.

Do you get that continuously? Are any of the other cores active at any time? Sorry, I'm not ranting at you, that is a terrible situation, I just cannot believe it!!

Task to core assignment is a Windows or software operation. Unless something else is the culprit, this is a great (terrible) example of Windows 8.1 not supporting a Ryzen system.

https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-blocking-windows-7-8-updates-amd-ryzen-intel-kaby-lake-cpu/

Are you sure it's "fully updated? Just sayin. I've known about this from Microsoft coming sooner rather than later. That load could be Windows Update hogging that core, getting no response from the WU servers.


Great time to jump on the Windows 10 bandwagon




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