re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Saturday, July 5, 2003 at 2:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
This sure become a lively thread. All of my observations and facts about hardware
are just that, FACTS! I can search through the MS KB and find the articles concerning
some motherboards having incompatibilities. As I have posted before, the system
idle process is normal and indicates the amount of processor power NOT being used
or the "IDLE" time of the processor. This is a process that is integrated into at
least NT 4 and later. It halts the processor when there is no work to be done, thus,
saving power and cooling the processor. Win 9X systems do not have this built in,
hence, the reason that software was sold that did just this, HALT the processor for
the cooling effect. I personally and professionally have had to return certian motherboards
for replacement from Asus which had problems that effected the system idle process.
I believe it was Abit and Soyo that needed a BIOS update to solve the problem.
What versions of Pro are you using? If it is a corporate version, I can't tell you
why you have the winupdmng service as I have both retail and OEM versions running
on 6 computers with SP 1 with all relevent updates on all 6 machines and do not have
at start up, or any other time, the service you mention. A search on Google for
instance and at MS doesn't turn up anything. If you are on a corporate machine,
I suspect there is a service installed as a result of your corporate version of XP
or of other software. So in conclusion, I hate to burst your bubble but what you
have as far as winupdmng service goes, I can't identify why you may have it but is
certianly not common on all machines and the system idle process is not one you have
to be concerned about as it is a normal part of XP, CAN NOT be disabled and is nothing
to be concerned about normally... C K
On Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 11:10 pm, Trent Sherman wrote:
>Okay..I'm going to burst everyone's theories right now because I would love a cure,
>not a theory. Case in point: I've been operating WinXP Pro for over 6th months,
>NEVER having such a problem with my AMD 955MHz PC, 256MB Ram, 60 GB Drive. What
>peripherals I have attached are irrelevant. And I've been using a Bellsouth ADSL
>Speedtouch (USB) modem for over a year "with" software upgrades .. with absolutely
>no problems.
>
>When I upgraded to SP1 Service Pack, and..in addition..after downloading drivers
>that the winupdate site detected, then (and ONLY THEN) did I start having troubles.
> Has nothing to do with chip bios upgrades, hardware conflicts or what type of
computer
>your using. Let's kill that part of the thread right now.
>
>In the system process menu the following two processes need examining real closely:
>
>"winupdmng" and "system idle process". Please note.. Although a person can check
>off the box that allows you to disable Windows from retrieving Windows Updates,
it
>still loads "winupdmng" upon each system startup anyways..have you noticed that?
>
>I have NEVER noticed a process called "WINUPDMNG" until AFTER I installed the SP1
>Package from Microsoft. Let's start checking out this theory for a while and drop
>the others. I couldn't stand in the background any further, watching all these
guesses.
> I'm speaking from experience from having Win Xp Pro for a while now, having a ADSL
>modem for a while and never having troubles until after Microsoft's REQUIREMENT
to
>have the SP1 Package installed, else nothing would allow us to have further downloads/updates
>from them. Let me know how everyone does and what they find out.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Trent Sherman
>orderonline@bellsouth.net
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