re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 5:33 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeremy
(2 messages posted)
Im not saying the idle process is the cause of the problem. Im olny saying that the
problem arises after the service pack is installed.
The result of wich Seems to be slow recovery of CPU from the idle process.
This is a Guess as you are right i dont know jack for sure.
My worry of attack is not over the idle process but over not Patching XP to avoid
the problem as Most of the patches are security patches.
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:07 pm, C K wrote:
>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.
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