Samsung Magician 4.4 causing high CPU Usage

[Berryracer]

I rarely if ever hear the sounds of my CPU fans blowing at full blast but the last couple of days they always seem to be running so I checked my CPU Usage and noticed that Samsung Magician 4.4 is causing high CPU usage

what gives?

 

[Tsavo]

Is it still this way after a reboot?

 

[Berryracer]

indeed, the moment i exit Magician the cpu usage goes down to 0%
I can't remember this happened before

I've just disabled it from startup now...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

indeed, the moment i exit Magician the cpu usage goes down to 0%
I can't remember this happened before

I've just disabled it from startup now...

Just speculating, but it has real-time smart-monitoring and reporting. Second, IT'S A PROGRAM designed to do certain things with the SSD -- beyond ordinary SSD usage.

Third, you don't need it running in the background; when you need it, click a short-cut icon and then click the sys-tray Magician icon. ONce you've done what's needed, exit with the sys-tray icon.

Once you've used Magician to configure RAPID, you don't need Magician running until you want to further change the way the SSD works with the OS, or do benchmarks and "optimizations."

 

[Berryracer]

yes thanks Bonzai, that's what I've done

cheers bro

 

[aviator79]

I just double checked your issue on my three systems. Can't confirm this. My CPU is from 0% to max 0.6% usage for Magician (4.4) I also use RAPID on one of my Samsungs SSDs.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I just double checked your issue on my three systems. Can't confirm this. My CPU is from 0% to max 0.6% usage for Magician (4.4) I also use RAPID on one of my Samsungs SSDs.

Sounds to me like there's some sort of conflict causing Berry's Magician installation to use clock cycles like that.

I just checked my sig rig. Keep in mind that it wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison, since our systems may differ in various ways.

But with RAPID running, Magician 4.4 loaded to sys-tray and then activated by double-clicking the sys-tray icon to bring up the application, the two "Magician" entries in my Processes list show virtually 0% in CPU usage.

What would any others suggest? Perhaps he should get Latency Monitor? Or find a tool that will reveal what programs/processes/services might be interacting with Magician . . . delayed procedure calls? Interrupts?

Maybe . . . uninstall Magician? Pause his AV/Firewall and install it again?

 

[alan1476]

All you have to do is make a larger page file and it wont happen, I am willing to bet you do not even have a page file. Remember the Samsung magician runs mainly off your system RAM.