Processor Runaway!

[Rick.Jeffries]

I installed 2007 Beta 2 this morning on my IBM/Lenovo R52, which ran ON
2003 SP1 without incident. I have brought over a rather large notebook
with a number of embedded background images, and within moments of
starting up, ON 2007 begins taking up enormous amounts of processor --
up to 99%. This makes application switching a bit sluggish, but
interestingly, if you bring up any kind of dialogue in ON, processor
usage drops way down, and the computer is not wholly unusable this way,
but it is markedly slower

I've uninstalled and reinstalled, the second time being an upgrade
install rather than a side-by-side.

Is some sort of massive indexing project going on in the background?
If so, will a long weekend logged in take care of things?

What's the deal?

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

It most likely is indexing of the sections' content. ON2007 will have an
improved indexing and search capability, including the abilty to do an
"OCR" search on images, and text searching the content of audio files.

Building up that initial index takes some time and processing power.
There are lots of MS applications which will use all available RAM when
the system is idle, and release RAM when needed.

I'd suggest leaving the computer on overnight, and leave OneNote running.
See if the CPU behavior still exists to the same degree after that time.
If so, please log a bug.

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

Please let OneNote 2007 do some of the indexing work that Erik mentions. If
you are still seeing problems please let us know.

 

[Rick.Jeffries]

Thank you both, Erik and Daniel, for the reassurance. I left my laptop
at the office, locked and running ON for a long three days in the sun.
If it's still hogging resources when I get back, I'll let you know.

Rick