re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Friday, February 27, 2004 at 1:32 am
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Posted by Khmerster
(1 messages posted)
although this problem is still bugging me i am glad i am not the only one with the
problem. My system idle process is also bugging me. its using 99% of my CPU and because
of that my computer shuts it self down when it gets too hot which is about every
use of over an hour. I also think that this was the cause of my DSL Modem of some
sort. this started recently when i got reconnection of my DSL. i have not yet tried
to update my bios, but i will do that soon. any help please!
On Monday, July 21, 2003 at 9:55 am, C K wrote:
>OK.. So let me clarify.. The CPU does not recover from the idle process.. The
>idle process is invoked and que'd when no work reaches the processor. This is the
>fault of the operating system or other device not working correctly to get work
TO
>the processor which indeed can be caused by a service pack on a particular machine
>for many reasons. I work on, as well as, have multiple machines myself as old as
>5 years and have had none of the problems that others are having with service packs,
>other than those which everyone is experiencing and MS is working on to correct.
> I have had no problems with slow machines as have some people, which only means
>that I don't have a problem device, driver or program loaded that could be causing
>a problem as could someone else. The operating system, drivers and hardware can
>all act as, (together, or by themselves) a bottleneck to keep work from the procesor,
>resulting in a machine slowing to a crawl, and that will invoke the idle process.
> When a machine is slow, check the CPU graph for a better representation of how
much
>work the CPU is doing. In 99.99% of cases you will see the CPU basically doing
nothing.
> It this case it it means that you have problems somewhere in software or hardware
>ranging from conflicts/bugs to a bad device, bad driver etc. The CPU activity chart
>and the idle process will always in my experience, (accept for a couple of hardware
>instances mentioned) be proportionate to the CPU activity or when compared to the
>combined time of all other processes. As far as service packs and vunerabilities,
>of course, it is happening and happening a lot, and there will always be that problem.
> Service packs can cause as many bugs as they are intending to fix, or at least
it
>can seem like it. That, unfortunatly will always be a problem with code and all
>of the operating systems today suffer the same illness to some degree. MS just
has
>more problems due to the massive amount of installations world wide and it's popularity
>as compared to other systems, and granted, there has been some sloppy programming
>involved for sure.. The speed of patching isn't as fast as anyone would like to
>see but it's not as easy to patch on todays systems as it was in systems 7 or 10
>years ago. Things are much more complicted now. The more massive the code base,
>the harder it may be to patch something. (as I can verify from my own coding experience)
>
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