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Old 03-08-2008, 08:24 PM   #6 (permalink)
cliffhucker
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Default Re: CPU usage higher at idle.

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Originally Posted by Makaveli213 View Post
There is nothing abnormal in your log at all. that is a great log.

Do you see what process is using the resources when it spikes? It is the system idle process? If so that should always be high as that just tells you that your system is idle. when i am doing nothing my system idle process is at 98 or 99%.

It could be that somehting is workign in the background. Like AVG or Comodo blocking something.

Mak,

my original post was from May of 2007. I think it was process under "services and controller app" and "DPC" but I cannot remember now since it was so long ago. I just remeber tracking it down to my vid card and TCP/IP filtering and or netbios over tcp/ip

My system idles at 0% CPU usage pretty solidly now. Nod32 and Comodo do not become active unless a windows service does first otherwise they lay idle. At least from my observations of watching them for hours.

As I mentioned. the reason I was idling above the normal 1-2% was because of my tcp/ip settings and my video card.

Here is a screen shot right now showing my system idling at 100%





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