re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Thursday, November 28, 2002 at 9:59 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
I'll check your MB on the vendors web site for the chipset. If your CPU shows 75%
the idle process should be around 25%. Win 2000 and XP are the same and they are
different. XP is more resource hungry so it needs more RAM than did 2000. Either
way adding ram will help so you wouldn't be throwing your money away unless you upgrade
MB's which may take different memory. I have 1 gig of RAM in all of my machines
and the Virtual Memory is turned off. It makes a huge difference in performance.
To date, in video and audio editing, I've yet to have a problem with not enough
memory. I've posted before that XP Pro works much better on a dual processor system.
A majority of the problems I see are on more recent uni-processor systems, and some
older systems where the ACPI spec wasn't fully implemented correctly. (Hmm.. I
wonder why, does MS want us all to run SMP machines??) Take a look at the other
running processes. Another process with a high time number is also hogging CPU time.
I would be curious to know what they show. I assume you have checked for a BIOS
update? Sorry, if you already answered that one but I don't recall off hand.. If
you can identify a process that is running a lot of time, that would be at least
part of the source of the problem. If not, there could be a hardware or driver issue
going on. There would be an outside chance that XP has some problems with your hardware.
I am still suspicous of a bottle neck in the system but I would have to run some
physical tests to be sure. There are some reports of some versions of a certian
MB having problems. I have in my archive somewhere some info that may help identify
system bottlenecks, I'll dig it up and post it when I get a chance. Let me know
what you find.. Incidently, if you ever want to copy anything off the bootup screen,
just hit the "Pause-Break" key, then "Enter-Return" key to continue booting. This
should work on every PC.. C K
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 1:49 pm, Wim Kotze wrote:
>CK,
>
>hi again..Thanks for your reply.Excuse my ignorance, but actually identifying my
>motherboard based on the startup information turned out to be quite a mission. I
>hope I've got it right.
>- It seems I have a EPOX kt-133M+ motherboard (chipset?) (based on a search of my
>award bios no 8363-686B-6a6LMPADC-00) - thats with an AMD Duron 1GHz processor and
>128Mb RAM
>- I have visited blkviper.com but not much has changed after following all recommendations
>- I am willing spend the money to double my RAM if I'm convinced that it will solve
>the whole problem, but I would like to tackle the main cause first.
>- The system idle process is around 50% when the CPU reports 75% (which is, incidentally,
>all of the time).
>- my pc at work, with similar software (and more) and the same RAM and CPU, but
with
>windows 2000, rarely idles at more than 2%.
>
>It would be a very, very happy day when I know what steps to take to solve the problem..Do
>you think I might need to upgrade my MB?
>
>thanks & regards
>
>Wim
>
>
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