Im really hoping someone can help me out here. I've been googling for months and nobody has fixes that worked for me yet.
For some reason when im playing a game, ill get huge latency problems, my audio cuts out and my keyboard and mouse cut out as well.
Its not specific to one game, and it doesnt always happen. ESO and DND Dark Alliance it happens frequently. Less demanding games like The Binding of Isaac or Hades, it happens less often, but still does every now and then.
Ive tried a new PSU, underclocking the CPU a bit, RAM on and off of XMP, Windows refreshes, Bios updates. Im at a loss here and would really love some help.
I ran LatencyMon for about 38 minutes and walked away. For the first 10 minutes, it was fine. But when i came back, it looks like it still had problems at some point.
The above image I captured from GPU-Z of when it looks like i had a huge lag spike while LatencyMon was testing.
The above image here i captured while playing DND Dark Alliance. Grabbed the MAX of each stat. The issues were happening constantly after i started up the game.
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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. 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 0:38:19 (h🇲🇲ss) on all processors.
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: DESKTOP-BFOS4NP
OS version: Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 19042 (x64)
Hardware: B550 AORUS PRO AC, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Logical processors: 16
Processor groups: 1
RAM: 32712 MB total (2x DDR4 32GB Corsair Vengence)
GPU: MSI RTX 2070 Super
PSU: Corsair RM850x
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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed: 3593 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): 276.10
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 4.323172
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 273.20
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1.323452
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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): 165.662121
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.001074
Driver with highest ISR total time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.001201
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 21098
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs): 0
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): 2242.680768
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: nvlddmkm.sys - NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 471.11 , NVIDIA Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.018420
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: ndis.sys - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.023613
DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 1733199
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs): 34
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 3
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 1
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: nvcontainer.exe
Total number of hard pagefaults 61451
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 23098
Number of processes hit: 75
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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 19.093940
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 165.662121
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0.440920
CPU 0 ISR count: 20656
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 2242.680768
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 2.128884
CPU 0 DPC count: 558825
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.292087
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 39.436682
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000538
CPU 1 ISR count: 34
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 73.462844
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0.053870
CPU 1 DPC count: 25217
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 11.550176
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 2 ISR count: 0
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 99.844141
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 5.539435
CPU 2 DPC count: 782265
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.669561
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR count: 0
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 267.339827
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.015953
CPU 3 DPC count: 7757
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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.207541
CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR count: 0
CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 47.221820
CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 0.076567
CPU 4 DPC count: 33683
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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.209206
CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR count: 0
CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 41.310326
CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.062369
CPU 5 DPC count: 35045
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CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.364360
CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR count: 0
CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 31.801837
CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 0.046817
CPU 6 DPC count: 23574
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CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.052632
CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR count: 0
CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 40.759254
CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.008848
CPU 7 DPC count: 4181
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CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 5.738293
CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 8 ISR count: 0
CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 40.268299
CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0.287966
CPU 8 DPC count: 113292
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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.916690
CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR count: 0
CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 265.746730
CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.333580
CPU 9 DPC count: 94783
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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.012410
CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR count: 0
CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 37.052046
CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0.044414
CPU 10 DPC count: 19795
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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.985264
CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR count: 0
CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 38.544949
CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 0.017061
CPU 11 DPC count: 6489
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CPU 12 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.601793
CPU 12 ISR highest execution time (µs): 1.472864
CPU 12 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000138
CPU 12 ISR count: 358
CPU 12 DPC highest execution time (µs): 39.516838
CPU 12 DPC total execution time (s): 0.029710
CPU 12 DPC count: 13624
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CPU 13 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.322248
CPU 13 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.651266
CPU 13 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000004
CPU 13 ISR count: 9
CPU 13 DPC highest execution time (µs): 29.637629
CPU 13 DPC total execution time (s): 0.009588
CPU 13 DPC count: 4111
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CPU 14 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.572033
CPU 14 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.951851
CPU 14 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000009
CPU 14 ISR count: 15
CPU 14 DPC highest execution time (µs): 57.992764
CPU 14 DPC total execution time (s): 0.022651
CPU 14 DPC count: 8054
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CPU 15 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.371066
CPU 15 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.871695
CPU 15 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000016
CPU 15 ISR count: 26
CPU 15 DPC highest execution time (µs): 39.356527
CPU 15 DPC total execution time (s): 0.007934
CPU 15 DPC count: 2542
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For some reason when im playing a game, ill get huge latency problems, my audio cuts out and my keyboard and mouse cut out as well.
Its not specific to one game, and it doesnt always happen. ESO and DND Dark Alliance it happens frequently. Less demanding games like The Binding of Isaac or Hades, it happens less often, but still does every now and then.
Ive tried a new PSU, underclocking the CPU a bit, RAM on and off of XMP, Windows refreshes, Bios updates. Im at a loss here and would really love some help.
I ran LatencyMon for about 38 minutes and walked away. For the first 10 minutes, it was fine. But when i came back, it looks like it still had problems at some point.
The above image I captured from GPU-Z of when it looks like i had a huge lag spike while LatencyMon was testing.
The above image here i captured while playing DND Dark Alliance. Grabbed the MAX of each stat. The issues were happening constantly after i started up the game.
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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. 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 0:38:19 (h🇲🇲ss) on all processors.
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: DESKTOP-BFOS4NP
OS version: Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 19042 (x64)
Hardware: B550 AORUS PRO AC, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Logical processors: 16
Processor groups: 1
RAM: 32712 MB total (2x DDR4 32GB Corsair Vengence)
GPU: MSI RTX 2070 Super
PSU: Corsair RM850x
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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed: 3593 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): 276.10
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 4.323172
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 273.20
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1.323452
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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): 165.662121
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.001074
Driver with highest ISR total time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.001201
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 21098
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs): 0
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): 2242.680768
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: nvlddmkm.sys - NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 471.11 , NVIDIA Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.018420
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: ndis.sys - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.023613
DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 1733199
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs): 34
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 3
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 1
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: nvcontainer.exe
Total number of hard pagefaults 61451
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 23098
Number of processes hit: 75
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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 19.093940
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 165.662121
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0.440920
CPU 0 ISR count: 20656
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 2242.680768
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 2.128884
CPU 0 DPC count: 558825
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.292087
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 39.436682
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000538
CPU 1 ISR count: 34
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 73.462844
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0.053870
CPU 1 DPC count: 25217
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 11.550176
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 2 ISR count: 0
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 99.844141
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 5.539435
CPU 2 DPC count: 782265
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.669561
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR count: 0
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 267.339827
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.015953
CPU 3 DPC count: 7757
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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.207541
CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR count: 0
CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 47.221820
CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 0.076567
CPU 4 DPC count: 33683
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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.209206
CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR count: 0
CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 41.310326
CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.062369
CPU 5 DPC count: 35045
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CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.364360
CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR count: 0
CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 31.801837
CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 0.046817
CPU 6 DPC count: 23574
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CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.052632
CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR count: 0
CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 40.759254
CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.008848
CPU 7 DPC count: 4181
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CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 5.738293
CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 8 ISR count: 0
CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 40.268299
CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0.287966
CPU 8 DPC count: 113292
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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.916690
CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR count: 0
CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 265.746730
CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.333580
CPU 9 DPC count: 94783
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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.012410
CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR count: 0
CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 37.052046
CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0.044414
CPU 10 DPC count: 19795
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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.985264
CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR count: 0
CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 38.544949
CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 0.017061
CPU 11 DPC count: 6489
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CPU 12 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.601793
CPU 12 ISR highest execution time (µs): 1.472864
CPU 12 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000138
CPU 12 ISR count: 358
CPU 12 DPC highest execution time (µs): 39.516838
CPU 12 DPC total execution time (s): 0.029710
CPU 12 DPC count: 13624
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CPU 13 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.322248
CPU 13 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.651266
CPU 13 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000004
CPU 13 ISR count: 9
CPU 13 DPC highest execution time (µs): 29.637629
CPU 13 DPC total execution time (s): 0.009588
CPU 13 DPC count: 4111
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CPU 14 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.572033
CPU 14 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.951851
CPU 14 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000009
CPU 14 ISR count: 15
CPU 14 DPC highest execution time (µs): 57.992764
CPU 14 DPC total execution time (s): 0.022651
CPU 14 DPC count: 8054
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CPU 15 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.371066
CPU 15 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.871695
CPU 15 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000016
CPU 15 ISR count: 26
CPU 15 DPC highest execution time (µs): 39.356527
CPU 15 DPC total execution time (s): 0.007934
CPU 15 DPC count: 2542
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