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Fix for SPOOLSV.EXE Eating processor
Name: Danny O'Neill Date: September 13, 2001 at 02:25:22 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Dell precision workstation that runs Novell and have the problem of SPOOLSV.exe eating up processor cycles and memory. After rebuilding it still has the problem.
A lot of people blame Novell but I found that it wasn`t this but my drivers for my nVidia Quadro 2 Pro card, nvcpl.dll to be exact.
If I use an old driver all worked fine but the newer ones didn`t like this atall.
But, the latest 21.xx series seem to be ok and no more problems.
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