Today, when I installed VS2008 SP1 on my office PC, I noticed that one of my cores are totally captured by mscorsvw.exe. A quick google search reveled that this service is used to precompile .NET assemblies. If you ever encounter this, then run ngen.exe executequeueditems
, this will compile all the queued assemblies, followed by a restart. After reboot, your CPU will return to normal. Hoooray.
Reference: David Natario’s WebLog
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