AmesMUG: Parallels going bezerk since 3188

[Colin Wheeler]

Hey everybody

I just want to know if anybody else is experiencing this. I can't be  
sure but I believe before the 3188 update windows xp pro running  
under parallels ran just fine. I could start it up and right away dig  
into my homework. But sometime ago whenever I started XP pro up my  
CPU's went bezerk. Since Parallels only knows about 1 core in my 2.33  
Ghz Core 2 Duo it had 1 process called svchost.exe that was taking up  
97-98% cpu usage, combined with the apps im running on OS X it could  
take 40-70% on each cpu core.

I looked it up and found http://www.liutilities.com/products/ 
wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/ which says it's some process that  
helps with executing commands from dll's and shouldn't be killed.  
Even on a top of the line Core 2 Duo it feels like it takes a minute  
or two for this process hogging to get done so I can resume using XP  
without the applications responding slowly.

I didn't install anything new on windows and generally only go to  
DMACC's online page for homework, certainly nothing that should hog  
up this much cpu time. I have ClamWin installed and will probably  
scan my hole system, but is anybody else experiencing anything like  
this?

 From Colin