re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 3:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tony Norris
(4 messages posted)
OK, I am not a techy like most of you, BUT I would like to add my two pennies worth
...........
I have three hard drives (family) the mobo I have and add ones, drivers seem irrelevant
(?) because ......
ALL three drives have exactly the same system and SP and updates, also same drivers
and add on's.
BUT the slow drive (system idle process 99% cpu) has a recurring problem which the
others don't have .... adware/spyware called 'ROING SEARCH ENHANCEMENT' . I delete
it using a spyware prog. and there it is back again with all associated files!!!
- please consider this as a possible cause and report back if you have an answer.
I have not found anm answer yet, a utility would be best, but I am convinced this
is MALWARE!!!! - comments?
PS. Whilst on this forum three attempts have been made to plant a trojan called 'adclicker'
onto my system - what is going on on the WWW these days!!!!
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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