re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 7:41 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Shears
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem when ripping CD's last night. The first 5 CD worked well,
then, regardless of the condition of the CD i put in the drive, the SIP was running
at greater that 97%. Also, the CPU usage bar graph was running at only 2-3 bars.
I was using Windowa Media Player to rip the songs in WMA format. Also, like our
friend before, even when logging onto the net via IE, it takes quite a while (several
minutes a page). My hat off to Mr. Gates for creating products that require additonal
expense on behalf of his customer to work right.
On Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 12:46 am, Clifford wrote:
>No, I believe that Sabrina's problem is real. I have the same problem. When no processes
>are running, the idle process should indeed consume all the available processor
cycles.
>However this CPU time should not be accounted for in CPU usage on the performance
>tab, (otherwise it would always total 100%!).
>
>I my case, the only process logging time is the idle process, but the CPU usage
is
>high. It never goes below about 22% in XP (compared with about 2% on NT), and often
>goes much higher (60-70%), and the system becomes very sluggish.
>
>The idle process should be ready to relinquish CPU to active processes at any time.
>If you select "show kernel times" from the "view" menu in Task Manager, it indicates
>that almost all the CPU cycles are accounted for by kernel time.
>
>I can only imagine that this is a driver problem, but I have not located it, but
>the problem may have arisen after installing a USB ADSL modem, but I have not confirmed
>this yet.
>
>Clifford
>
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