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CONCLUSION
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Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:38:39 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: CHRIS-LAPTOP
OS version: Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 19041 (x64)
Hardware: Aspire E5-574G, Acer, Zoro_SL
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Logical processors: 4
Processor groups: 1
RAM: 16250 MB total
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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed: 2592 MHz
Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.
WARNING: the CPU speed that was measured is only a fraction of the CPU speed reported. Your CPUs may be throttled back due to variable speed settings and thermal issues. It is suggested that you run a utility which reports your actual CPU frequency and temperature.
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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.
Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 3771.90
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 7.471638
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 3267.70
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 3.090857
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REPORTED ISRs
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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.
Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 311.834877
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 5.760150
Driver with highest ISR total time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 5.854939
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 293176809
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs): 23
ISR count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
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REPORTED DPCs
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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.
Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 5695.945988
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: ndis.sys - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.023043
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: storport.sys - Microsoft Storage Port Driver, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.124895
DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 2202341
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs): 1307
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 18
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 7
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.
NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.
Process with highest pagefault count: microsoft.photos.exe
Total number of hard pagefaults 4140
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 1525
Number of processes hit: 42
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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 607.183047
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 311.834877
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 543.265554
CPU 0 ISR count: 293175705
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 3241.431327
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 7.968670
CPU 0 DPC count: 1610315
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 15.506661
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 127.777006
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000625
CPU 1 ISR count: 248
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1064.302469
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 1.104755
CPU 1 DPC count: 98980
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 20.845363
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 89.807099
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.001178
CPU 2 ISR count: 273
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 3124.714506
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 2.089273
CPU 2 DPC count: 430661
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 5.611224
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 133.845679
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.008642
CPU 3 ISR count: 606
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 5695.945988
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.426245
CPU 3 DPC count: 63719
