re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
I'm not quite sure what you are saying here so you will have to expand on it.. You
can check with the programmers from all the operating systems that use a process
similar to, or the systems idle process, and you you will get the same answers.
Service packs may cause problems in a number of areas but again, if you check with
the programmers, you will find that the code for the idle process is less likely
to blame than any other issue addressed by the services pack. I do not believe that
you are knowledgeable on the system idle process code if you think that a hacker
can use it to gain access to the machine. The system idle process is ONLY called
into play when NO work reaches the processor and there have been very few problems
actually attributed to the system idle process code itself. If you do have problems
with it, I can prove that it has nothing to do with service packs. If you are going
to have a problem with it (as I have on certian hardware which started in the beta
releases of XP), you would have had trouble with it in previous versions of NT (again
as I did) due to hardware incompatibilities or BIOS code/firmware.
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 8:55 am, Jeremy wrote:
>Im sorry i believe you are very knowledged but im going to have to AGREE Firmly
this
>System Idle Issue is real and is a direct cause of the Windows Service pack download
>and instalation.
>As an experiment i Reinstalled Windows XP and then patched drivers by the maker
of
>the device.
>I did not update windows at all and the problem has not returned.
>To test this further i then updated the windows with windows update and the problem
>returned later that night.
>I then atempted to uninstall the service pack but even after uninstalled the problem
>persisted.
>I would like to advance a theory that this is a direct result of the windows update
>program itself somehow.
>I am Open to other Ideas on how to fix this if for no other reason then not patching
>XP leaves you open to serious Threat of attacker intrusion.
>The olny other option is a conflict with a system that has run smoothly since last
>christmas.
>Im running windows XP home on a P4 1.7 with 512 DDR a gforce Ti 4200 128 mb video
>card SBlive soundcard i have a sony cd r - rw and a super disk drive (100 mb floppy)
>I connect with SURfboard sb3100 on cox cable .
>
>
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | | |  | re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 12:07 pm) |
| |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
