re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Monday, November 4, 2002 at 10:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by The Mish
(2 messages posted)
Sabrina et al.,
I was just checking out a few options on my machine, and when I made the virtual
paging file a custom size instead of allowing the "System managed size," my only
program that gave me problems, Sound Forge, worked absolutely perfectly! Try it
on your system, and let us know if that solves your problem.
It might just be that for all of us who are running larger programs, such as the
video renderer guy, my sound editing, and the others, the system can't manage it's
own paging file and handle the huge memory request that is being made of it.
Maybe page file fragmentation has something to do with it?
Try it out, and let's see if this or something related to this is the solution to
the problem.
For those who don't know, the System Paging option in XP is found by:
- Right-clicking on "My Computer,"
- Advanced Tab,
- Performance Settings Button,
- Advanced Tab,
- Change Virtual Memory Button,
- Custom Size Radio Button.
I made my paging file 500MB. (Sometimes I wish for a CLI in Windows! Too much mousing
around!)
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 6:37 am, Sabrina wrote:
>Does anyone know if I can disable this or why it's taking so much of my CPU?
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