Wildly fluctuating frame rates

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Doing some performance testing on a Azure Kinect application (test early, test often!) and experiencing wildly fluctuating frame rates.

Simple network, some Math CHOP range calculations and compositing a few circles on the RGB feed from the Kinect.
40-50 fps for several minutes in Perform mode then gradually decrease to under 10 fps over a period of around 30 seconds (with corresponding decrease in both CPU and GPU usage) then slowly increase again.
This cycle seems to repeat, fast, slow, fast slow etc.
Anyone care to guess what might be causing this?
And is there any way of ‘forcing’ a constant frame rate?
Windows 10 TD 2020.22080

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Laptop or desktop? Have you checked Task Manager to see if you are throttling? Is the CPU maintaining clock speed? How about your temperatures? Or on a laptop I’ve had this happen when not plugged in as well. LOL