CPU spikes due to Zygors ProcessMonitor

[allnei]

Hi,
during investigation why my CPU is creating ~10-20% spikes I found out, that Zygor client is utilizing command "tasklist /fo csv /nh" to list and parse running processes every few seconds.

In my opinion this create crazy amount of overhead for Windows/CPU and create useless utilization of CPU. It is nice to see "game running" in client, but 99.99% of time it is in background anyway.

Instead of running it periodically, you should check running processes only when it is needed and suspend it when client is just running and not doing updating/etc.

[ZG Support 1]

That seems very high. When I look at my running processes it only does a 2-4% cpu usage which I never notice. Did you try restarting the computer and checking the usage after all processes are in a 'fresh' state?

[allnei]

Yup, even after restart.

Reason why you will not see it as CPU% for process is simple - heavy lifting is done in child process which is not included in CPU% for Zygor process. This child process exist only for second, but create that spike.

You can see it here https://imgur.com/a/cI1sh (red line is where zygor is run)

[Zygor Dev 6]

An update is rolling out to make this feature optional, and is disabled by default.