re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 1:53 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) I will do some checking, as none of the board makers are posting problems. So far it's known that Asus, Abit and Soyo have had problems as well as some others but I don't have a complete list. You almost have to have "inside" knowledge. What revision of board do you have and what program are you using for your application and rendering? I have some programs that are supposed to work on SMP systems but are not optimised for SMP, so they exhibit the same problems that you describe. I have some applications that are optimised and have far less problems. There are also problems with other applications /services that can inhibit the proper operation of programs which the operating system is powerless to prevent so this falls to the respective vendor to correct their code. You can email me directly from this forum if you want.. Might be faster.. C K On Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 12:52 pm, M P wrote: >Ok CK... >I have a Tyan ThunderBolt running dual P3 850, 2gigs of ram, 640 gigs of HD space >using scsi and ide drives and a DVD-Ram and a DVD-R burner. I am currently experiencing >sys idle process slowdown. For some reason, it starts using both processors, running >at 92-96% during rendering and after about 10 minutes, one drops off and I only get >around 55% of total processor power. I tried rebooting and it happened again but >this time, the other processor dropped off after about 10 minutes. One time I let >it render for about 4 hours under 50% and then all of the sudden, the other processor >kicked in giving me back my 98%!!! What goes here?? >I have upgraded the sys bios to the current, checked for newer drivers and installed, >switched to a 530watt power supply, changed the processor heatsink fans, (this case >has 13 fans throughout) so heat isn't the factor, I would assume. Your insight would >be greatly appreciated. >Thanks, M P > Written in response to: re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 12:52 pm) Responses to this message: re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 2:29 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Sabrina: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 6:37 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jason Trudeau: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 6:41 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Bob B: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 7:16 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 9:54 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 12:46 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Ed Shears: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 7:41 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 9:12 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 12:52 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 1:53 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 2:29 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 4:57 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 8:57 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:20 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Brittnell: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 1:21 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 3:23 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:56 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 1:40 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 10:06 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Orlando : Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 2:22 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 11:38 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Simon: Wed, Jan 15, 2003, 9:45 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 1:11 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Mon, Nov 25, 2002, 12:10 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 25, 2002, 9:46 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Wed, Nov 27, 2002, 1:49 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 9:59 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Fri, Dec 6, 2002, 2:30 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Fri, Dec 6, 2002, 9:32 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (chris: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 9:15 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (taker: Sat, Mar 6, 2004, 7:11 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (The Mish: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:09 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 11:40 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (The Mish: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:21 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (shawn: Fri, Nov 22, 2002, 8:44 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Trent Sherman: Sat, May 17, 2003, 11:10 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 2:52 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jeremy: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 8:55 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 12:07 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jeremy: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 5:33 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 9:55 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Khmerster: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 1:32 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Tony Norris: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 3:25 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (P. 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