B's Blog

So in an interesting discovery today, I noticed a strangely coincidental correlation between clicks in Connections and massive spikes in CPU usage, ranging from a 10% to an 80% spike. It was rather strange to see my clicks correlate 90% of the time with the spikes that showed on the CPU meter. Now granted we're running Connections on a single core at 3.33 Ghz and 3.75 mb of ram on a VM, but nonetheless, I would have expected a little bit better performance out of the beast. The thing that concerns me the most, is that I was the only one clicking anything on the entire site! We haven't even started the POV yet, so I'm a little concerned that the load may be too much for this little VM. We will see I suppose......

On a related note, don't try to start all the Connections services via a script at once, it looks painful to see the CPU spiked at 100% for so long and to see the page file sit at 3.80 GB.......kind of crazy. Anyway, time to go workout, I'm done with Connections for now......

Signing off,
B